"net café refugee" meaning in All languages combined

See net café refugee on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: net café refugees [plural], net cafe refugee [alternative]
Etymology: Calque of Japanese ネットカフェ難民 (netto kafe nanmin). Etymology templates: {{calque|en|ja|ネットカフェ難民|tr=netto kafe nanmin}} Calque of Japanese ネットカフェ難民 (netto kafe nanmin) Head templates: {{en-noun}} net café refugee (plural net café refugees)
  1. (slang) A homeless person in Japan who do not own or rent a residence (thus having no permanent address) and sleeps in 24-hour Internet cafés or manga cafés. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-net_café_refugee-en-noun-vAqZMsHX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "ネットカフェ難民",
        "tr": "netto kafe nanmin"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Japanese ネットカフェ難民 (netto kafe nanmin)",
      "name": "calque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Japanese ネットカフェ難民 (netto kafe nanmin).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "net café refugees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "net cafe refugee",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "net café refugee (plural net café refugees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              40,
              57
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020 April 15, “Japan's homeless 'net cafe refugees' seek shelter amid coronavirus woe”, in The Straits Times, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2022:",
          "text": "YOKOHAMA (AFP) - Thousands of homeless \"net cafe refugees\" in Japan risk being turfed out onto the streets as the coronavirus pandemic forces the sudden closure of their uniquely Japanese 24/7 comic book havens.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A homeless person in Japan who do not own or rent a residence (thus having no permanent address) and sleeps in 24-hour Internet cafés or manga cafés."
      ],
      "id": "en-net_café_refugee-en-noun-vAqZMsHX",
      "links": [
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan"
        ],
        [
          "manga",
          "manga"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A homeless person in Japan who do not own or rent a residence (thus having no permanent address) and sleeps in 24-hour Internet cafés or manga cafés."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "net café refugee"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "ネットカフェ難民",
        "tr": "netto kafe nanmin"
      },
      "expansion": "Calque of Japanese ネットカフェ難民 (netto kafe nanmin)",
      "name": "calque"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Calque of Japanese ネットカフェ難民 (netto kafe nanmin).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "net café refugees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "net cafe refugee",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "net café refugee (plural net café refugees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms calqued from Japanese",
        "English terms derived from Japanese",
        "English terms spelled with É",
        "English terms spelled with ◌́",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              40,
              57
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020 April 15, “Japan's homeless 'net cafe refugees' seek shelter amid coronavirus woe”, in The Straits Times, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2022:",
          "text": "YOKOHAMA (AFP) - Thousands of homeless \"net cafe refugees\" in Japan risk being turfed out onto the streets as the coronavirus pandemic forces the sudden closure of their uniquely Japanese 24/7 comic book havens.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A homeless person in Japan who do not own or rent a residence (thus having no permanent address) and sleeps in 24-hour Internet cafés or manga cafés."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan"
        ],
        [
          "manga",
          "manga"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) A homeless person in Japan who do not own or rent a residence (thus having no permanent address) and sleeps in 24-hour Internet cafés or manga cafés."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "net café refugee"
}

Download raw JSONL data for net café refugee meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.