Cafe vs Lounge - What's the difference?
cafe | lounge |
A coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises.
A French pub.
A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
A domestic living room.
* 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair .
The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
* 1849 , The Knickerbocker (volume 33, page 198)
To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
* J. Hannay
As nouns the difference between cafe and lounge
is that cafe is a coffee shop; an establishment selling coffee and sometimes other non-alcoholic beverages, simple meals or snacks, with a facility to consume them on the premises while lounge is a waiting room in an office, airport etc.As a verb lounge is
to relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.cafe
English
(wikipedia café)Alternative forms
* cafe * * caff (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (coffee shop) caff (British slang), coffeehouse, coffee shop, tea shop * (French pub) seeCoordinate terms
* bar * bistro * cafeteria * restaurantDerived terms
*Anagrams
* ----lounge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
- That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.
Synonyms
* (living room) loungeroom (Australia ) * (pub) See alsoVerb
(loung)- We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.