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cafe

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkæfeɪ//
  • United Kingdom//ˈkæfi//
  • United Kingdom//ˈkafɛj//
  • United States//ˌkæˈfeɪ//

A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.

noun

  1. 1

    A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.

  2. 2

    Variant of caféAlternative form of café.

    Many customers who head straight to the bar at cafes, where espressos are cheaper than table service, are blue-collar workers, he said, in search of a quick, inexpensive caffeine hit.

Forms

plural
cafes
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).