Synonyms for cafeteria
- noun
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.
Related words
- Word family
- caff cafe
- Phrases
- cafeteria bowling cafeteria truck cafeteria wagon
- Other spellings
- caféteria
Forms
- Plural
- cafeterias → lunchrooms, canteens, restaurants, diners…
Example sentences
- restaurant We had a dinner of a kind at the cheap restaurant.
- diner Chuck's Diner makes the best hamburgers in Boston.
- canteen Tom handed Mary his canteen and she took a drink.
- lunchroom Sami walked into the lunchroom all by himself.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| cafeteria | rising | |
| restaurant | rising | |
| diner | rising | |
| canteen | rising | |
| lunchroom | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- diner2
- 6 letters
- eatery3
- 7 letters
- canteen2
- 9 letters
- lunchroom2
- 10 letters
- restaurant3
- 12 letters
- luncheonette3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (diner2 = 2 syllables).