cafes
- 1Plural of cafe.
The old town is dotted with small cafes serving espresso and pastries.
Many cafes along the boulevard set out tables on the sidewalk in summer.
Note
A plain -s plural that serves both meanings of the unaccented spelling. Most often it means coffee houses, the same places written cafés when the accent is kept. In South Africa it also names convenience stores, which began as shops selling coffee and a few basics, so a street with several cafes there may simply have several corner shops. The capitalized acronym CAFE, for fuel-economy standards, is a separate word.
cafes is a form of cafe
cafe, noun: A convenience store, originally one specializing in coffee and similar basic items. Full entry
- Forms
- cafecafes plural
- Spelling
- cafe → cafes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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