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cat café

cat café noun: a café that has domestic cats with which the clientele can interact.

cat café: a café that has domestic cats with which the clientele can interact
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Noun

cat café (plural cat cafés)

  1. A café that has domestic cats with which the clientele can interact.
    • Taiwan opened the world’s first cat cafe in 1998 and Japan followed suit in 2004. Since then, the number of animal cafes has proliferated in Japan, where many people live in apartment buildings that forbid pets.2016 April 22, Richard Smart, “Japanese cat cafe closed down over neglect fears”, in The Guardian

Forms of cat café

pluralcat cafés
alternative formcat cafe

Questions about cat café

What does cat café mean?
Cat café means a café that has domestic cats with which the clientele can interact.
What part of speech is cat café?
Cat café is a noun.
What is the plural of cat café?
The plural of cat café is cat cafés.

Words near cat café in the dictionary

  1. cat burglaries
  2. cat burglars
  3. cat burglary
  4. cat cafe
  5. cat cafes
  6. cat café
  7. cat cafés
  8. cat calling the kettle black
  9. Cat City
  10. cat colony
  11. cat containment

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