CAFE

[ ka-fey, kuh- ]
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noun
  1. a U.S. federally mandated standard of average minimum miles-per-gallon fuel consumption for all the cars produced by an automobile manufacturer in a given year.

Origin of CAFE

1
C(orporate)A(verage)F(uel)E(conomy)

Other definitions for café (2 of 2)

café

or ca·fe

[ ka-fey, kuh- or, especially for 2, French ka-fey ]

noun,plural ca·fés [ka-feyz, kuh- or, especially for 2, French ka-fey]. /kæˈfeɪz, kə- or, especially for 2, French kaˈfeɪ/.
  1. a small, unpretentious restaurant, often with exterior seating on a patio or extending onto the sidewalk.

  2. coffee: I pick up a café and a croissant on my commute in to work every morning.

Origin of café

2
First recorded in 1780–90; from French: literally, “coffee”; see origin at coffee

usage note For café

See resume2.

Other words for café

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How to use CAFE in a sentence

  • They take in a couple of French papers at this CAFE, and the same number of Belgian journals.

    Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Their generosity did not suffice for his dissipations, his CAFE bills and his unbridled taste for billiards.

    Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
  • No long endless tables and big red velvet divans, as in a CAFE!

  • At Tarascon, in a CAFE, an hour ago; fifteen men attacked me, and I seized a knife to defend myself.

    File No. 113 | Emile Gaboriau
  • I tore off the wrappings and spread out the diamonds on the CAFE table; I could not believe they were real.

    In the Fog | Richard Harding Davis

British Dictionary definitions for café

café

/ (ˈkæfeɪ, ˈkæfɪ) /


noun
  1. a small or inexpensive restaurant or coffee bar, serving light meals and refreshments

  2. Southern African a corner shop or grocer

Origin of café

1
C19: from French: coffee

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