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单词 cafe
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café

(kæfeɪ, US kæfeɪ) also cafe
Word forms: plural cafés
1. countable noun
A café is a place where you can buy drinks, simple meals, and snacks, but, in Britain, not usually alcoholic drinks.
2. countable noun [noun NOUN]
A street café or a pavement café is a café which has tables and chairs on the pavement outside it where people can eat and drink.
...an Italian street café.
...sidewalk cafés and boutiques.
usage note: In Britain, a café serves tea, coffee, soft drinks, and light meals, but not usually alcoholic drinks.If you want an alcoholic drink, you can go to a pub. In American English, a pub is more usually called a bar. Many pubs serve food, especially at lunchtime, but for a larger or more specialmeal, you might go to a restaurant.
More Synonyms of cafe

cafe in British English

noun
small or inexpensive restaurant serving light refreshments

café in British English

(ˈkæfeɪ, ˈkæfɪ)
noun
1. 
a small or inexpensive restaurant or coffee bar, serving light meals and refreshments
2.  South Africa
a corner shop or grocer
Word origin
C19: from French: coffee

CAFE in American English

(kæˈfeɪ)
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cafe in American English

(kəˈfeɪ; kæˈfeɪ) or caˈfé (kəˈfeɪ; kæˈfeɪ)
noun
1. 
a coffeehouse
2. 
a small restaurant, esp. one serving alcoholic drinks and sometimes providing entertainment
3. 
a barroom
Word origin
Fr, coffee, coffeehouse < It caffè, coffee

Image of
café

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Examples of 'cafe' in a sentence
cafe

An extended family zone with shop and cafe are promised this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
If you want a drink with your meal both restaurants and cafes serve alcohol.
Wood, Katie Cheap Eats Guide to Europe 1994 (1993)
Cops swooped as he read stories about himself in an internet cafe.
The Sun (2012)
They met for coffees at a local cafe and spoke by text message.
The Sun (2015)
Another member worked in an internet cafe.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Take a picnic or reserve a table at the local cafe for lunch.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Pupils were told to find an internet cafe if they did not have computer access at a holiday villa.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We are now sitting in a small cafe in the centre of London.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
If you are out shopping, try to avoid cafes and restaurants.
Colette Harris, With Theresa Cheung PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycysticovary syndrome (2002)
And inspectors will still visit cafes, bars and restaurants to check on food hygiene.
The Sun (2013)
Perhaps she already knew it would draw in record crowds with its shops, cafes and blockbuster shows.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She also found it easy to research - she could simply sit in the cafes and restaurants and watch.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
We meet in a cafe in a small town north of Tel Aviv.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Now it's full of trendy shops, cafes and restaurants.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Eating lunch at a small cafe, I saw a sparrow hop through the open door and peck at the crumbs near my table.
Christianity Today (2000)
You can go to a little café or little shop and get great food.
The Sun (2014)
Neither of us knew anything about the restaurant or café business.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Riders fought for the meagre rations inside the small café.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The pair were stopped by armed men who blocked their vehicle soon after leaving an internet café.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Bar and café owners said that they would protest.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We find a discreet table in the corner of the café.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It can be setting up a small shop or a café.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Not since this place was an internet café.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But you could always top them up again in the farm shop café.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Did you eat in the café?
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Rough Trade has a café and a bar too.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There's a café and a restaurant.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The café owners are still hoping for special exemption, but most are prepared for the worst.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
I walked across the street to the café.
Christianity Today (2000)
I find it so much more convenient than queueing at some overpriced bar or café.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Most of the ground floor was inaccessible to the public, and was otherwise occupied by a small café and three temporary exhibition rooms.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We're enjoying a coffee on a street café in central London and the actor is explaining its unlikely outcome.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
My mum and dad's days of swarming up rope ladders lie in the past: they sit in the café eating ice cream.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)

In other languages
café

British English: café /ˈkæfeɪ; ˈkæfɪ/ NOUN
A café is a place where simple meals, snacks, and drinks are sold.
  • American English: café
  • Arabic: مَقْهَى
  • Brazilian Portuguese: café
  • Chinese: 茶馆
  • Croatian: kafić
  • Czech: kavárna
  • Danish: café
  • Dutch: café
  • European Spanish: café establecimiento
  • Finnish: kahvila
  • French: café bar
  • German: Café
  • Greek: καφετέρια
  • Italian: caffè
  • Japanese: カフェ
  • Korean: 카페
  • Norwegian: kafé
  • Polish: kawiarnia
  • European Portuguese: café
  • Romanian: cafenea
  • Russian: кафе
  • Latin American Spanish: café
  • Swedish: kafé
  • Thai: ร้านกาแฟ
  • Turkish: kafe
  • Ukrainian: кав'ярня
  • Vietnamese: quán cà phê

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