cafeteria
pronunciation
How to pronounce cafeteria in British English:
UK [ˌkæfəˈtɪəriə]
How to pronounce cafeteria in American English:
US [ˌkæfəˈtɪriə]
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- Noun:
- a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier
Word Origin
- cafeteria
- cafeteria: see coffee
- cafeteria (n.)
- 1839, American English, from Mexican Spanish cafeteria "coffee store," from café "coffee" (see coffee) + Spanish -tería "place where something is done" (usually business). The ending came to be understood popularly as meaning "help-yourself" (as though café + -teria) and was extended to new formation with that sense from c. 1923.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Koch industries cafeteria , wichita , kansas
- 2. Some people use the term slow schools to refer to schools that are attemptingto bring slow food to the cafeteria or dining room .
- 3. Have been largely based on studies in informal settings , like the casual conversations recorded in a german housing project and in the cafeteria of an american middle school .
- 4. More than 1000 students gathered in school canteen , smashing windows and vandalizing the cafeteria facilities .