CAFETERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cafeteria mean? 

• CAFETERIA (noun)
  The noun CAFETERIA has 1 sense:

1. a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier

  Familiarity information: CAFETERIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAFETERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cafeteria" is a kind of...):

eatery; eating house; eating place; restaurant (a building where people go to eat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cafeteria"):

automat (a cafeteria where food is served from machines)

 Context examples 

They increased the abundance of certain bacteria-types contained in the probiotic such as Streptococcus and Lactobacillus and other bacteria-types such as Butyrivibrio, which were decreased by the cafeteria diet.

(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In addition to being fatter, the cafeteria diet "dramatically altered the microbiota" resulting in rats with much less microbial diversity in their gut.

(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from UNSW Medicine studied the impact of a commonly used probiotic on the gut health and cognitive function of rats, which were fed either a healthy diet or a cafeteria diet high in saturated fat and sugar.

(Probiotics May Not Always Be A Silver Bullet for Better Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)