different between eatery vs cafeteria

English

Alternative forms

• eaterie

Etymology

eat +? -ery

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?t??i/

Noun

eatery (plural eateries)

1. (informal) A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:restaurant

   Coordinate term: luncheonette

   Hypernym: eating establishment

Translations

Further reading

• “eatery”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “eatery”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Yeater

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