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caféteria

caféteria is the uncommon spelling of cafeteria.

Meaning of cafeteria

Noun

cafeteria (plural cafeterias)

  1. (Canada, US) A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.
  2. (Canada, US) A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.
    Synonyms:
    canteen

Forms of caféteria

pluralcaféterias

Origin of caféteria

From French caféteria. Most likely influenced by café, as the more common form in French, cafétéria, is less common in English than this one.

Questions about caféteria

What is caféteria the uncommon spelling of?
Caféteria is the uncommon spelling of cafeteria.

Words near caféteria in the dictionary

  1. cafés chantant
  2. cafés chantants
  3. cafés con leche
  4. cafés liégeois
  5. cafés noirs
  6. caféteria
  7. caféterias
  8. cafétéria
  9. cafétérias
  10. cag
  11. Cag-abaca

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caféteria (page history and authors); cafeteria (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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