Synonyms for cafeteria
ˌkæf ɪˈtɪər i əcafe·te·ri·a

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1. cafeterianoun

   Synonyms:
   lunchroom

2. cafeterianoun

   A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat

   Synonyms:
   canteen, lunchroom

3. cafeterianoun

   A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above) or brought in from elsewhere

   Synonyms:
   lunchroom, canteen

Princeton's WordNet

1. cafeterianoun

   a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier

Matched Categories

1. • Restaurant

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1. List of paraphrases for "cafeteria":

   undc-1, canteen, café, diner, footlocker

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How to use cafeteria in a sentence?

1. Bill Mutell:

   CEOs aren't there to have coffee in the cafeteria with employees and to yuk it up, it's easy for the gallery to criticize when in fact I'd be curious to see how they would have done things differently.

2. Angela Aiken:

   It's awesome, the kids want to eat it. The teachers want to eat it. Normally cafeteria food is gross.

3. Eric Swalwell:

   It's not only the people who had knowledge of what the president knew, the American people saw the police officers who were beaten and spit on and stampeded -- 50 of them injured and almost 20 of them hospitalized, one of them killed. The cafeteria workers who ran for their lives as well. There's a lot of witnesses to this crime.

4. White House:

   These workers are critical to the functioning of the federal government : from cleaning professionals and maintenance workers who ensure federal employees have safe and clean places to work, to nursing assistants who care for the nation's veterans, to cafeteria and other food service workers who ensure military members have healthy and nutritious food to eat, to laborers who build and repair federal infrastructure.

5. Mayor Ginger Nelson:

   Because they're critical and they can not close, they continued working, and they work side-by-side to do their jobs. But also just the nature of any manufacturing, any large employer where Mayor Ginger Nelson have thousands of employees showing up on certain shift times, they walk through the hallways together, they change in the same locker rooms together, they eat during their breaks or during lunch hour, they eat in the same cafeteria.