Cave vs. Cafe — What's the Difference?

A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground.

A restaurant serving coffee and other beverages along with baked goods or light meals.

A natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff

Alternative form of café

Explore caves as a sport

(South Africa) A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.

Capitulate or submit under pressure; cave in

A coffeehouse; a restaurant, especially a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

(among children) look out!

A small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold

A hollow or natural passage under or into the earth, especially one with an opening to the surface.

A storage cellar, especially for wine.

To dig or hollow out.

To cause to collapse or fall in. Often used with in

To fall in; collapse. Often used with in

To give up all opposition; yield. Often used with in

To explore caves.

A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.

A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.

A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.

A place of retreat, such as a man cave.

(caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.

(nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.

Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.

(mining) A collapse or cave-in.

The vagina.

A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.

(obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

(programming) A code cave.

To surrender.

To collapse.

To hollow out or undermine.

To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.

(mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.

To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.

(obsolete) To dwell in a cave.

Look out!; beware!

A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.

A coalition or group of seceders from a political party, as from the Liberal party in England in 1866. See Adullam, Cave of, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

To make hollow; to scoop out.

To dwell in a cave.

To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.

An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea

Hollow out as if making a cave or opening;

Explore natural caves