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Diner vs Cafeteria - What's the difference?

diner | cafeteria |

As nouns the difference between diner and cafeteria

is that diner is dinner, evening meal while cafeteria is cafeteria.

As a verb diner

is to dine.

diner

English

Noun

(wikipedia diner) (en noun)
  • One who dines, an eater.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
  • * (Calvin Trillin) (1935-)
  • When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
  • A dining car in a railroad train.
  • * Richard Gutman
  • The diner is everybody's kitchen.
  • A typically small restaurant, usually modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other, and often decorated in pop culture themes and playing popular music from those decades.
  • Synonyms

    * (rail car) dining car * (sense) pub

    Hyponyms

    * (expert) deipnosophist

    cafeteria

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia cafeteria) (en noun)
  • A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat
  • A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above) or brought in from elsewhere
  • Synonyms

    * lunchroom * (dining area in an institution) canteen