Meanings
plural cybercafés · alternative cybercafe
- datedA café in which customers may access the Internet, play video games etc.
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.
1998 April 16, Michel Marriott, “The Sad Ballad Of the Cybercafe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN1 more example
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!
2008 November 7, Virginia Heffernan, “The Cybercafe Lives”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: Internet cafe
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA café in which customers may access the Internet, play video games etc.
Origin
- Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
- Englishcyberneticclip.
- Englishcyber-
- Englishcafé
- Englishcybercafé
Translations
Esperanto retumejo
- retumejocafé to access the Internet
Polish kawiarenka internetowa
- kawiarenka internetowacafé to access the Internet
Spanish cibercafé, cibercafetín
- cibercafécafé to access the Internet
- cibercafetíncafé to access the Internet
- cibercafetuchocafé to access the Internet
Cite this entry
cybercafé. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercaf%C3%A9
“cybercafé.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercaf%C3%A9. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cybercafé,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercaf%C3%A9.
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