Cafe

Definition: Cafe

Cafe

Noun

1. A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cafe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Computing

19th Century Satire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CAFE

CAFE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Cafe

Abode

Assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house, cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive, exchange; grill room, saloon, shebeen; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada; almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse.

Crosswords: Cafe

German (cafe).

This anonymous report was sent to me. They're dragging the good name of our country through every cafe and nightclub (Ninotchka; writing credit: Melchior Lengyel; Charles Brackett)

When I was a little girl, I used to go home for lunch every day, and I'd pretend that my mother was a waitress in a roadside cafe. I'll have a side order, ma'am (Without You I'm Nothing; writing credit: Sandra Bernhard; John Boskovich)

Color cafe au lait, alright (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera)

In a cafe or sometimes on a crowded street (My Cherie Amour; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

The Keys of the Cafe (1965)

Cafe Oriental (1962)

Puss Cafe (1950)

Cavalcade of Broadway: Cafe Society (1949)

Porky's Cafe (1942)

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References

• Cia Cacique de Cafe Soluvel: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Cafe de Coral Holdings Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Rainforest Cafe, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (reference)

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Periodicals

• Cafe Review (reference)

• Cafe Revue - Dutch Ed (reference)

• Magazine Cafe (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Songs of Leiber and Stoller (Widescreen Edition) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Cafe Classics (reference)

• Cafe De Paris (reference)

• Terry's Cafe 6 (reference)

• World Lounge: Cafe Paris (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Sesame Street Counting Cafe (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Newell 13373 7/16'' Brass Cafe Rod (reference)

• Newell 14335 Cafe Rod Bracket (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Buster's Cafe. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The Minnow Cafe serves fishermen and tourists. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Indian tourist photographing an American family dining at an outdoor cafe at the 1939 New York World's Fair] / P. Barlow. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cafe au lait, or Cotton Club dancer. Credit: Library of Congress.

A winter scene at an outdoor cafe at the Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris, France. Credit: Library of Congress.

Janet Flanner and Ernest Hemingway, both in uniform, seated reading papers at a table in the Deux Magots cafe in Paris, France. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cafe and outdoor vaudeville, Dreamland, Coney Island, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wilcox's [i.e. Willcox's] hotel and cafe, Aiken, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Short order cafe, Moorhead, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Big Four Cafe, Cairo, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The Cafe Lemblin stood out for the emperor in opposition to the Cafe Valois, which was in favour of the Bourbons

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Business

Active franchisers are in the fast food, ethnic fast food, classic restaurant, pizza, ice cream, cafe, croissant and cheese pie, bakery, and pastry subsectors of food. Over 25 of these companies are Greek. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The suspected motive for the attack was Beslic's investigation into irregularities in the contract signed between a local cafe owner and the SDP for the rental. (references)

China

Another regulation requires Internet cafe patrons to register with "software managers" and produce a valid ID card to log on. Throughout the country, diplomats have observed that most Internet cafe users ignore these regulations. (references)

Economic History

Nicaragua

LEGENDS HOTEL & HARD ROCK CAFE, U.S. capital. (references)

Human Rights

Armenia

On September 25, a Georgian citizen of Armenian origin and a Dashnak leader, Poghos Poghosian, was found dead in a Yerevan cafe. (references)

Djibouti

On April 4, police arrested Aden Robleh Awaleh, president of the opposition National Democratic Party (PND), pending trial for the 1990 bomb attack at the Cafe de Paris restaurant. (references)

Morocco

In one of the cases, a cafe owner alleged that the officer slapped him in September 2000 in front of his customers, used force to remove him from his establishment, and subjected him to various forms of torture at brigade headquarters. (references)

Minorities

Ukraine

In May 2000, a popular folk singer was killed at a cafe in Lviv, allegedly by Russian-speakers who objected to his singing Ukrainian songs. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Local police detained two Bosniak men for throwing a hand grenade at the Serb Orthodox Church in the Bosniak-dominated town of Sanski Most on May 8. The windows of a nearby cafe owned by a Serb also were smashed in the incident. (references)

Political Economy

Guinea

The United States Department of State operates an American Cultural Center, which includes a library, Internet cafe, and hosts a lecture series on a variety of topics. (references)

Trade

El Salvador

For agricultural products, animals and veterinary products, the exporter must be registered in the Consejo Salvadoreño del Cafe (for coffee), Centro de Desarrollo Pesquero CENDEPESCA (for seafood), Inspección de Productos de Origen Animal-IPOA (animal products) and Dirección de Defensa Agropecuaria (for live animals). (references)

Travel

Armenia

Cafe Riviera, 8 Sayat Nova St., Yerevan. (references)

Lebanon

American fast food chains are ubiquitous (including McDonald's, Burger King, TGIF Friday's, Johnny Rockets, Sports Cafe, Hard Rock Cafe, Chilis, Hardee's, Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Popeye's, Dunkin' Donuts, and Planet Hollywood). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cafe": cafe au lait ♦ cafe noir ♦ cafe owner ♦ cafe royale. Additional references.

Beginning with "cafe": Cafe-au-Lait, Cafe-au-Lait Spots, cafe-bar, cafe-bars, cafe-culture, cafe-shabby, cafe-style.

Ending with "cafe": pousse-cafe, super-cafe.

Arabic 

‏مقهى (cabaret, tearoom), ‏مطعم (canteen, dining room, eatery, restaurant, tavern), ‏ناد ليلي (club), ‏قهوة (coffee). (various references)

Asturian

café (coffee). (various references)

Cebuano

kapehan. (various references)

Chinese 

咖啡館 (coffee shop), 咖啡馆, 咖啡店 . (various references)

Czech

kavárna (café, coffee house, coffee palace, coffee room, coffeehouse, tearoom). (various references)

Dutch

café (bar, café, coffee-house, pub). (various references)

Faeroese

kaffistova. (various references)

Farsi 

کافه (Buffet, Restaurant), رستوران (Buffet, Restaurant, Salon, Saloon, Teashop). (various references)

Finnish

CAFE-ohjelma (Clean Air for Europe Programme), Puhdasta ilmaa Euroopalle -ohjelma (Clean Air for Europe Programme). (various references)

French

café (café). (various references)

Frisian

kofjehûs. (various references)

German

Cafe. (various references)

Greek 

καφετέρια (cafeteria, coffee pot). (various references)

Hungarian

kávézó (café, coffee room, coffee shop), kávéház (café, coffee house, coffee palace, coffee shop). (various references)

Indonesian

restoran kecil, kedai kopi. (various references)

Inuktitut

kaapituqvik. (various references)

Italian

caffe\ (cafes), caffè (café, coffee), CAFE (Conditional Access For Europe), bar (bar, buffet, café, pub, saloon, snack bar), Accesso condizionato per l'Europa (Conditional Access For Europe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

カバー曲 (black coffee, Cabala, cafe a la creme, cafe au lait, cafe bar, cafe cabaret, cafe royal, cafeteria, caffeine, capital, cappuccino, capriccio, capsule, capsule hotel, cavalier, coupler, coverage, cub, cub scout, cuff links, cuffs, expresso coffee, Kabbalah, Kabul, Neapolitan coffee, Qabalah, remake of another artist's song, sidewalk cafe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

カフェ . (various references)

Kongo

fulu kia ndwina kafi. (various references)

Korean 

다방. (various references)

Macedonian

kafeterija. (various references)

Manx

thie ooree, oastan (restaurant). (various references)

Norwegian

kafé (café, coffee-house). (various references)

Pig Latin

afecay.(various references)

Portuguese

café (café, coffee palace). (various references)

Provencal

cafè (coffee). (various references)

Ruanda

aho banwera. (various references)

Russian 

кафе (cafй, coffee palace, coffee room, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffee-house, coffee-room, teahouse, tea-shop). (various references)

Samoan

faleaiga itiiti. (various references)

Spanish

cafe/, cafés (cafés, cafes). (various references)

Swahili

mkahawa (restaurant). (various references)

Thai

ร้านกาแฟ (caff, coffee shop, coffeehouse). (various references)

Turkmen 

kebaphana (kebob restaurant). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiệm cà phê quán ăn tiệm rượu hộp đêm cà phê. (various references)

Welsh

caffe. (various references)

caffe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cafe": cafes, cafeteria, cafeterias, cafetoria, cafetorium, cafetoriums. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cafe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afej, affe, bcfe, caae, caaf, cabe, cabee, cace, caf, cafa, cafan, cafc, cafee, cafen, Cafer, cafey, Caffa, caffe, caffed, Caffell, caffer, Caffon, cafh, cafi, cafo, caft, cafu, caje, cawf, caxe, cedfe, ceef, Cef, Cefai, Cefyn, cfag, Cfao, cfe, Cfer, cfu, cief, cife, Cifel, cifer, Claffam, Claffey, coef, cofa, cofae, cofe, cofen, coffe, cufa, Cufay, cufe, Cuffe, cyf, Cyfa, cyfe, Iafei, icifi, jafe, Kaf, kafa, Kajfez, Mcaffee, Mcaffer, nafe, oafe, scafe, Yaffe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: face.

-1 letter: ace.

-2 letters: ae, ef, fa.

+1 letter: cafes, chafe, decaf, faced, facer, faces, facet, farce, fecal.

+2 letters: affect, biface, carafe, casefy, chafed, chafer, chafes, decafs, deface, efface, enface, facade, facers, facete, facets, faceup, facies, facile, faecal, faeces, falces, farced, farcer, farces, farcie, fasces, fauces, faucet, fecial, fecula, fiacre, fiance, reface.

+3 letters: acetify, affects, affiche, bifaces, caffein, cageful, carafes, careful, carfare, catface, chafers, chaffed, chaffer, chamfer, chaufer, crafted, defaced, defacer, defaces, dogface, effaced, effacer, effaces, enfaced, enfaces, facades, faceted, faciend, facture, faculae, faience, falcate, fancied, fancier, fancies, farcers, farceur, farcies, fasciae, fascine, faucets, fecials, feculae, felucca, fiacres, fiancee, fiances, finance, flacked, fracted, furcate, furnace, icefall, malefic, outface, preface, refaced, refaces, refract, scarfed, surface, uniface.