cybercafé

See also: cybercafe

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

cyber- + café

Noun

cybercafé (plural cybercafés)

  1. (dated) A café in which customers may access the Internet, play video games etc.
    • 1998 April 16, Michel Marriott, “The Sad Ballad Of the Cybercafe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      The notion of a cybercafe—a place for Net surfers to socialize on a tide of gourmet coffee—is at odds with how most people want to use computers, even in their leisure time.
    • 2008 November 7, Virginia Heffernan, “The Cybercafe Lives”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Most recently, the rattiest old cybercafes in Queens have been shut down, following too-frequent fights among hotheaded video-game patrons. And the once-glamorous @Cafe in Manhattan was already boarded up by 1998!

Synonyms

Translations

French

Etymology

From cyber- + café.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cybercafé m (plural cybercafés)

  1. Internet café

Portuguese

Noun

cybercafé m (plural cybercafés)

  1. Internet cafe (place where one can use a computer with Internet)
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