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cafeteria

[ kaf-i-teer-ee-uh ]

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.


cafeteria

/ ˌæɪˈɪəɪə /

noun

  1. a self-service restaurant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cafeteria1

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; from Latin American Spanish ڱٱí “cé,” Spanish cafeter(a) “coffeemaker,” from French ()پè (equivalent to é + پè feminine of -ier ); t apparently by analogy with words such as bouquپè “flower seller,” from bases ending in t ) + -í; coffee, -ier 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cafeteria1

C20: from American Spanish: coffee shop
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“Now, they are bringing partisan politics directly to the cafeteria table, threatening our children’s food security as a mechanism to force states to comply with a national ideological agenda. This is flat-out wrong.”

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Unified employees, who include bus drivers, teacher aides, campus supervision aides, cafeteria workers and custodians.

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And in January, 17-year-old Solomon Henderson opened fire in a school cafeteria in Antioch, Tennessee, killing one student and injuring another before turning the gun on himself.

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Instead, over the course of four days, he was assaulted by four adult men, including a man who picked him up after the teen sent him pictures from his high school cafeteria.

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He and his wife were sitting in the cafeteria at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

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