café

• cafe
• caffè (Italianate)
• caffe (Italianate)
• caffé (Italianate, nonstandard)
• caff (British, informal)

Borrowed from French café (“coffee; coffee shop”). Doublet of caffè and coffee.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkæˈfeɪ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæfeɪ/

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• Homophone: CAFE
• Rhymes: -æfeɪ, -eɪ

café (plural cafés)

1. A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.
2. (Canada) A small restaurant of any genre.
   • 1982, Joni Mitchell, Chinese Café / Unchained Melody (song)

• (coffee shop): caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop

• bar
• bistro
• cafeteria
• restaurant

• face, ecaf

Borrowed from French café.

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. a cafe, coffee shop

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café m (plural cafés)

1. (Valencia) Alternative spelling of cafè

Borrowed from French café.

café c (singular definite caféen, plural indefinite caféer)

1. café

• fortovscafé

Borrowed from French café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه‎ (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة‎ (qahwa, “coffee”).

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈfeː/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧fé
• Rhymes: -eː

café n (plural cafés, diminutive cafeetje n)

1. café; coffee shop

   Synonym: koffiehuis

2. pub, bar

   Synonyms: kroeg, biercafé

3. snackbar

   Synonym: eetcafé

• biercafé
• biljartcafé
• bruin café
• cafébezoeker
• caféhouder
• eetcafé
• grand café
• huiskamercafé
• internetcafé
• poolcafé
• stamcafé

Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé[1], from Ottoman Turkish قهوه‎ (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة‎ (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caoua.

• IPA^(key): /ka.fe/

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café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)

1. coffee (drink)

   Synonyms: caoua, noir, petit noir

   Hypernym: boisson

   Hyponyms: bistouille, café arrosé, café au lait, café-calva, café-chicorée, café chocolaté, café crème, café filtre, café frappé, café-lambig, café turc, cappuccino, décaféiné, expresso, macchiato, ristretto

2. coffee colour
3. public house
4. cafe, coffee shop

• cafèt’
• cafétéria
• décaféination
• décaféiner

• Haitian Creole: kafe
• Louisiana Creole: kafe

Borrowings

café (plural cafés)

1. of the colour of coffee

• “café”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• face

• IPA^(key): /kɐˈfɛ/

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee

   O día estaba frío, i dempois de xantar os convidados dixeron que non lles sentaría mal unha cunca de café.

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2. coffee bean
3. coffee plant
4. cafeteria

• (coffee plant): cafeeira

• cafeeira

• “café” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Borrowed from French café.

café m (plural cafés)

1. (Jersey) coffee (beverage)
2. (Jersey) café (establishment)

• caf'tchiéthe (“coffee pot”)

• cafè (obsolete)

Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه‎ (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Classical Arabic قَهْوَة‎ (qahwa, “coffee”).

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ca‧fé

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. a café, an establishment selling coffee and other beverages, alcoholic or not, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises
3. Ellipsis of café da manhã.

• cafeteria
• cafeteira
• café da manhã
• cafezal

• Kadiwéu: gaape

Borrowed from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه‎ (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة‎ (qahwa, “coffee”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈfe/ [kaˈfe]

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ca‧fé

café (plural café or cafés)

1. brown

café m (plural cafés)

1. coffee
2. cafe, coffee shop

• → Cebuano: kape
• → Central Tarahumara: kajé
• → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: cafe
• → Hiligaynon: kape
• → Mecayapan Nahuatl: capej
• → Navajo: ahwééh
• → Tagalog: kapé
  • → Min Nan: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
• → Waray-Waray: kape

• “café”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from French café.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈfeː/

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• Rhymes: -eː

café n

1. cafe, coffee shop

• cafeteria/kafeteria
• fik
• kafé
• kaffestuga
• konditori

The definite singular form can also be cafét/caféts.