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restaurant

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/ (UK)
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/ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/ (UK) · /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒ̃/ (UK) · /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt/ (UK) · /ˈɹɛst(ə)ˌɹɑnt/ (US) · /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt/ (US) · /ˈrɛsˌʈɔ.rᵻnʈ/ · /ˈrɛs.ʈ(ə.)rɔnʈ/ · /ˈrɛs.ʈrɒ̃/

Definition of restaurant

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
    “That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.”
    “By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin restaurārebor. Old French restorer French restaurer French restaurantbor. English restaurant Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“to restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.

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