cafe
pronunciation
How to pronounce cafe in British English:
UK [ˈkæfeɪ]
How to pronounce cafe in American English:
US [kæˈfeɪ]
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- Noun:
- a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold
Word Origin
- café
- café: see coffee
- cafe (n.)
- 1802, from French café "coffee, coffeehouse," from Italian caffe "coffee" (see coffee). The beverage was introduced in Venice by 1615 and in France from 1650s by merchants and travelers who had been to Turkey and Egypt. The first public café might have been the one opened in Marseilles in 1660.
Example
- 1. Some groups meet in a favourite restaurant or cafe .
- 2. Cox has worked at the campus cafe since october 2008 .
- 3. We pulled over at a cafe for coffee .
- 4. The first non-state cafe didn 't open in moscow until 1986 .
- 5. I arranged to meet her in a cafe on london 's tottenham court road .