restaurant

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restaurant

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Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“I restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒ̃/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹ(ə)nt/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a restaurant”:

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə)ˌɹɑnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹənt/
• Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant

restaurant (plural restaurants)

2. 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.

   • 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.

• See also Thesaurus:restaurant

• restaurateur

• →? Japanese: レストラン
• → Malay: restoran

• bar
• cook, chef
• drive-in
• fast food
• grill
• menu, Appendix:Menus
• slow food
• waiter m, waitress f, waitron

Afrikaans Wikipedia has an article on:

restaurant

Wikipedia ^af

• restourant

From Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key): /rɛstʊə̯ˈrant/, /rɛstuˈrant/

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restaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)

1. restaurant

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

restaurant

Wikipedia ^ca

Borrowed from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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• Rhymes: -ant

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

restaurant

1. gerund of restaurar

Borrowed from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key):

restaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)

1. restaurant

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

restaurant

Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key): /rɛstoːˈrɑnt/, /rɛstuˈrɑnt/, /rɛstəˈrɑnt/

• Audio (male voice):

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• Audio (female voice):

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• Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

restaurant n (plural restaurants or restauranten, diminutive restaurantje n)

1. restaurant

• Contrary to English, in Dutch this word is not used to refer to fast food establishments, which are instead referred to with terms such as snackbar (or non-generic terminology referring to the type of fast food served, such as dönerzaak, pizzeria, and so forth).
• In Belgium, the plural form restauranten is common and co-exists with the plural form restaurants. In the Netherlands, the plural form restauranten is rare.

• Afrikaans: restaurant
• → Caribbean Hindustani: restoránt
• → Caribbean Javanese: rèstoran, lèstoran
• → Indonesian: restoran

French Wikipedia has an article on:

restaurant

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From the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurans, restaurantem.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/

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restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

restaurant

1. present participle of restaurer

• restaurer
• restauration

• “restaurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

restaurant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of restaurō

Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

restaurant

Wikipedia ^no

Borrowed from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key): /rɛstʉˈrɑŋ/

restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)

1. a restaurant

• “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

restaurant

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Borrowed from French restaurant.

restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)

1. a restaurant

• “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French restaurant.

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restaurant n (plural restaurante)

1. restaurant