Usually means: Place serving food to many.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. cafeteria: Merriam-Webster
  2. cafeteria: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cafeteria: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cafeteria: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cafeteria: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cafeteria, cafeteria: Wordnik
  7. cafeteria: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cafeteria: Wiktionary
  9. cafeteria: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cafeteria: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cafeteria: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cafeteria, cafeteria: Dictionary.com
  13. cafeteria: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cafeteria: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cafeteria (bicosoecid), Cafeteria (disambiguation), Cafeteria: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. cafeteria: Rhymezone
  17. Cafeteria (f), cafeteria: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Cafeteria: American-Britih Dictionary
  19. cafeteria: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cafeteria: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. cafeteria: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. cafeteria: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cafeteria: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cafeteria: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cafeteria: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (chiefly US, Canada) A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.
▸ noun:  (chiefly US, Canada) A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.

Similar:
caféteria, buffeteria, buffet car, cafeterie, servery, buffet, scatter buffet, restaurant, café, canteen, more...

Opposite:
restaurant, dining hall, bistro, eatery

Types:
salad bar, soda fountain, fast food, buffet, all-you-can-eat, more...

Phrases:
cafeteria plan, cafeteria style, cafeteria tray, cafeteria benefit, cafeteria Catholicism, more...

Adjectives:
high, large, small, new, crowded, service, same, main, public, local, nearby

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Similar:
caféteria, buffeteria, buffet car, cafeterie, servery, buffet, scatter buffet, restaurant, café, canteen, more...

Opposite:
restaurant, dining hall, bistro, eatery

Types:
salad bar, soda fountain, fast food, buffet, all-you-can-eat, more...

Phrases:
cafeteria plan, cafeteria style, cafeteria tray, cafeteria benefit, cafeteria Catholicism, cafeteria facility, cafeteria Catholic, cafeteria Christianity, Compton's Cafeteria riot, Clifton's Cafeteria, more...

Adjectives:
high, large, small, new, crowded, service, same, main, public, local, nearby

Colors:
    beige,     brown,     olive green,     mustard yellow,     cream, more...



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