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noun
1.
a restaurant in which patrons wait on themselves, carrying their food to tables from counters where it is displayed and served.
2.
a lunchroom or dining hall, as in a factory, office, or school, where food is served from counters or dispensed from vending machines or where food brought from home may be eaten.
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Cafeteria
has a plethora of syllables.
So is floccinaucinihilipilification. Does it mean:
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
Example Sentences
- They thought they'd help themselves, on the cafeteria principle, to the maximum amount they could safely get away with.
- Then, he moved the meeting rooms to the center of the building, followed by the cafeteria and coffee bar and gift shop.
- They had a school of home economics there, and it had a cafeteria which was cheap and wonderful.
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Word Origin & History
cafeteria
1839, Amer.Eng. from Mexican Sp. cafeteria "coffee store," from café "coffee" + Sp. -tería "place where something is done" (usually business). The ending came to be understood popularly as meaning "help-yourself" (as though café + -teria) and was extended to new formation with that
EXPANDsense from c.1923.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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cafeteria
self-service restaurant in which customers select various dishes from an open-counter display. The food is usually placed on a tray, paid for at a cashier's station, and carried to a dining table by the customer. The modern cafeteria, designed to facilitate a smooth flow of patrons, is particularly well-adapted to the needs of institutions-schools, hospitals, corporations-attempting to serve large numbers of people efficiently and inexpensively. In addition to providing quick service, the cafeteria requires fewer service personnel than most other commercial eating establishments.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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