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noun
A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
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noun
A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
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noun
a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: restaurant, eating house, eating place, eatery
Narrower terms: automat
History
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of cafetière.
Across languages
220 source translations are retained for this English entry.
