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cafeterie

cafeterie noun: cafeteria.

Noun

cafeterie (plural cafeteries)

  1. (dated) Cafeteria.
    • There is no "diner," so we get off the train for breakfast, and have some more cafeterie experience. A plate, knife and fork are provided, the rest you are expected to do for yourself, pay your bill and depart.1907, Laura A. Taylor, Three Westerners Abroad, page 46
    • A central kitchen serves a cafeterie, seating two hundred; a café, seating seventy; and a lunch counter with stools for forty.1909, Harvester World, International Harvester Company of America, Vol. 1, p. 28, https://books.google.ca/books?id=kzs2AQAAMAAJ&q=%22cafeterie%22&dq=%22cafeterie%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkq5uJ5cHNAhV...
  2. (dated) Pantry, stillroom.
    • It appeared that the cafeterie was the very lowest post in the hotel, and a dreadful come-down for a waiter […]1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC

Forms of cafeterie

pluralcafeteries

Questions about cafeterie

What does cafeterie mean?
Cafeterie means cafeteria.
What part of speech is cafeterie?
Cafeterie is a noun.
What is the plural of cafeterie?
The plural of cafeterie is cafeteries.

Words near cafeterie in the dictionary

  1. cafeteria wagon
  2. cafeteria wagons
  3. cafeteria-style
  4. cafeterial
  5. cafeterias
  6. cafeterie
  7. cafeteries
  8. cafetier
  9. cafetiere
  10. cafetieres
  11. cafetiers

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