cybercafé

cybercafé

See also: cybercafe

English

Alternative forms

• cybercafe

Etymology

cyber- +‎ café

Noun

cybercafé (plural cybercafés)

1. (dated) A café in which customers may access the Internet, play video games etc.
   • 1998 April 16, Michel Marriott, “The Sad Ballad Of the Cybercafe”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     The notion of a cybercafe—a place for Net surfers to socialize on a tide of gourmet coffee—is at odds with how most people want to use computers, even in their leisure time.

   • 2008 November 7, Virginia Heffernan, “The Cybercafe Lives”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     Most recently, the rattiest old cybercafes in Queens have been shut down, following too-frequent fights among hotheaded video-game patrons. And the once-glamorous @Cafe in Manhattan was already boarded up by 1998!

Synonyms

• Internet cafe

Translations

café to access the Internet

Esperanto: retumejo (eo) Spanish: cibercafé (es) m, ciber café (es) m, ciber (es) m

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French

Etymology

From cyber- +‎ café.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cybercafé m (plural cybercafés)

1. Internet café

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Portuguese

Noun

cybercafé m (plural cybercafés)

1. Internet cafe (place where one can use a computer with Internet)