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caf

/kæf/

caf noun: a café.

Noun

caf (countable and uncountable, plural cafs)

  1. (countable, informal) A café.
    • Fourth on the list of the businesses my father and his brothers had owned was a caf on the corner of San Ignacio and Lamparilla in Old Havana.2008, Carlos Frías, Take Me with You: A Memoir
  2. (countable, informal) A cafeteria.
    • There are plenty of restaurants to choose from when you're sick of the ol’ caf food.2005, Amy Davis, Adam Burns, Michigan State University, page 49
    • Locked, empty classrooms on either side, other halls opening up to go down to the caf, two janitors' closets. Janitors' closets. Great. One was locked.2009, Lili St. Crow, Betrayals
  3. A caffeinated coffee.
    • If you decide to cut coffee out completely, consider going down half a cup a day, week by week, if your withdrawal symptoms—headaches and irritability—are severe. Or, mix decaf with caf, increasing the quantity of decaf until you are down to all decaf.2007, Karen Gurwitz, Jen Hoy, The Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook: Give Your Baby a Healthy Start with 100 Recipes That Adapt to Fit How You Feel, New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 31

Proper noun capitalized: CAF

CAF

  1. (Canada, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Canadian Armed Forces.
    Synonyms:
    CF
  2. (Canada, abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Canadian Air Force, predecessor of the Royal Canadian Air Force
    Synonyms:
    RCAF
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Central African Federation.

Examples of caf in a sentence

  • The flat looks out on a patio on one side and a churro café on the other.
  • The film featured a madcap car chase that went right through a crowded café.
  • On my way to town, I stopped in at the new café for a cup of tea.

All 40 example sentences with caf

Synonyms of caf

Forms of caf

pluralcafs
alternative formcaff

Plural of caf: cafs

Origin of caf

Clippings.

Words formed from caf

Words that rhyme with caf

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Questions about caf

What does caf mean?
Caf means a café.
What part of speech is caf?
Caf can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce caf?
Caf is pronounced /kæf/.
What is the plural of caf?
The plural of caf is cafs.

Words near caf in the dictionary

  1. caesuraless
  2. caesuras
  3. caesuric
  4. caetra
  5. caetrae
  6. caf
  7. CAF Champions League
  8. caf up
  9. CAFAB
  10. cafaminol
  11. cafard

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