a small or inexpensive restaurant or coffee bar, serving light meals and refreshments a corner shop or grocer
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ca•fé or ca•fe/kæˈfeɪ, kə-/USA pronunciation
n. [countable], pl. -fés or -fes.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- a small restaurant, often with a section extending onto the sidewalk.
- a barroom, cabaret, or nightclub.
ca•fé
(ka fā′, kə- or, esp. for 4, Fr. ka fā′),USA pronunciation n., pl. -fés
CAFE (ka fā′, kə-),USA pronunciation n.
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(-fāz′; Fr. -fā′).USA pronunciation
- a restaurant, often with an enclosed or outdoor section extending onto the sidewalk.
- a restaurant, usually small and unpretentious.
- a barroom, cabaret, or nightclub.
- coffee.
- French: literally, coffee
- 1780–90
- 1, 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged coffeehouse, bistro, lunchroom, tearoom.
CAFE (ka fā′, kə-),USA pronunciation n.
- a U.S. federally mandated standard of average minimum miles-per-gallon fuel consumption for all the cars produced by an automobile manufacturer in a given year.
- C(orporate) A(verage) French(uel) English(conomy)
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'cafe' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Viennese
- alfresco
- bar
- bierstube
- bistro
- cabaret
- cafeteria
- caff
- caffeine
- café au lait
- café brûlot
- café car
- café chantant
- café con leche
- café crème
- café curtain
- café filtre
- café noir
- café royale
- café society
- coffee bar
- coffee royal
- cybercafé
- darling
- estaminet
- fashionable
- fast food
- hedenbergite
- intimate
- leisure centre
- lifestyle
- pousse-café
- pull in
- pull up
- special
- tart
- taverna
- tea shop
- thing
- tortoni
- transport café
- trattoria
- wine bar