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Restaurant
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Restaurant
Restaurant
See also: restaurant
restaurant
restaurant
See also: Restaurant
English

Restaurant
Noun
restaurant (plural restaurants)
-  An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
-  1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
- 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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Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:pub
 
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
an eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables
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See also
- bar
 - cook, chef
 - drive-in
 - fast food
 - grill
 - menu, Appendix:Menus
 - slow food
 - waiter m, waitress f, waitron
 
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology
From French restaurant
Noun
restaurant n (plural restaurants, diminutive restaurantje n)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/
 
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Verb
restaurant
- present participle of restaurer
 
Related terms
Descendants
- English: restaurant
 - German: Restaurant
 - Russian: рестора́н (restorán)
 - Swedish: restaurang
 
Norman
Etymology
Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French restaurant
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛstʉˈrɑŋ/
 
Noun
restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)
References
- “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
 
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French restaurant
Noun
restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)
References
- “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.