different between cafeteria vs taxonomy

English

Alternative forms

• caféteria
• cafétéria (rare)
• cafeterie

Etymology

(Mid 19th or 20th century) American Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic ???????? (qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??i?
• Rhymes: -???i?

Noun

cafeteria (plural cafeterias)

1. A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat
2. A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere

Synonyms

• lunchroom
• (dining area in an institution): canteen

Related terms

• caf
• café, cafe
• drugeteria
• washeteria

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k?.f?.t???i.?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka.fe.te??i.a/
• Rhymes: -ia

Noun

cafeteria f (plural cafeteries)

1. cafe
2. cafeteria

Finnish

Noun

cafeteria

1. Alternative form of kafeteria.

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

cafeteria f (plural cafeterias)

1. cafeteria (type of restaurant)

Swedish

Noun

cafeteria c

1. cafeteria

Declension

Alternative forms

• kafeteria

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

Translations