caf·e·te·ri·a

(kăf′ĭ-tîr′ē-ə)

1. A restaurant in which the customers are served at a counter and carry their meals on trays to tables.

2. A dining area, as at a school or office building, where meals may be purchased or brought from home and eaten.

[Spanish cafetería, coffee shop, cafeteria, from café, coffee, ultimately (via French, café, or Italian, caffè) from Ottoman Turkish qahve; see coffee.]

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cafeteria

(ˌkæfɪˈtɪərɪə)

a self-service restaurant

[C20: from American Spanish: coffee shop]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

caf•e•te•ri•a

(ˌkæf ɪˈtɪər i ə)

n., pl. -ri•as.

1. a restaurant in which patrons select food at a counter and carry it to tables.

2. a lunchroom, as for employees or students.

[1830–40, Amer.; < American Spanish]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

cafeteria - a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier

automat - a cafeteria where food is served from machines

eatery, eating house, eating place, restaurant - a building where people go to eat

Translations

كافِتِيريَامَطْعَمُ خِدْمَةٍ ذاتيَّه

jídelnarestaurace se samooblushou

cafeteria

ruokala

restoran sa samoposlugom

kaffitería

tavola calda caffetteria self-service

カフェテリア

카페테리아

savitarnos valgykla

kafetērija

samoobslužná reštaurácia

cafeteria

ร้านอาหารบริการตนเอง

kafeterya

quán ăn tự phục vụ

自助餐厅

cafeteria

[ˌkæfɪˈtɪərɪə] N → (restaurante m de) autoservicio m; (in factory, office) → cafetería f, comedor m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cafeteria

[ˌkæfɪˈtiərɪə] n → cafétéria f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cafeteria

n → Cafeteria f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cafeteria

[ˌkæfɪˈtɪərɪə] n → self-service m inv; (in factory) → mensa

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cafeteria

(kӕfəˈtiəriə) noun

a self-service restaurant. This department store has a cafeteria.

cafeteria

→ كافِتِيريَا jídelna cafeteria Cafeteria καφετέρια cafetería ruokala cafétéria restoran sa samoposlugom tavola calda カフェテリア 카페테리아 cafetaria kafeteria bar szybkiej obsługi refeitório кафетерий cafeteria ร้านอาหารบริการตนเอง kafeterya quán ăn tự phục vụ 自助餐厅

cafeteria

n. cafetería.

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In this brief essay, I wish simply to identify the nature of current rivalries and to alert the reader to what I consider a destructive temptation to categorize Catholics into "types." To do this, it is important to identify a problematic posture before the teaching of the Church taken by some Catholics (so-called cafeteria Catholics), to highlight the temptation of some to call themselves "devout" (implying a certain spiritual superiority), and to emphasize the inaccuracy of the oft-employed political categories in the Church.

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The sub-basement floor, used by the Bank as a vault, has been turned into a cafeteria. Here, Claremont preserved some of the original details--including a heavy metal vault door that now leads from the kitchen to the eating space.

Bank's former offices turn into new downtown school