CAFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cafe mean? 

• CAFE (noun)
  The noun CAFE has 1 sense:

1. a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold

  Familiarity information: CAFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cafe; coffee bar; coffee shop; coffeehouse

Hypernyms ("cafe" is a kind of...):

eatery; eating house; eating place; restaurant (a building where people go to eat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cafe"):

caff (informal British term for a cafe)

cybercafe (a cafe whose customers sit at computer terminals and log on to the internet while they eat and drink)

espresso shop (a cafe where espresso is served)

estaminet (a small (and usually shabby) cafe selling wine and beer and coffee)

pull-in; pull-up (a roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers)

 Context examples 

He ordered a suit of clothes from the tailor and ate his meals in the best cafes in town.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The cessation from writing and studying, the death of Brissenden, and the estrangement from Ruth had made a big hole in his life; and his life refused to be pinned down to good living in cafes and the smoking of Egyptian cigarettes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)