restaurant
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Restaurant
See also: Restaurant
English
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Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒ̃/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹɒnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹ(ə)nt/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə)ˌɹɑnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹənt/
- Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
Noun
restaurant (plural restaurants)
- 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.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:restaurant
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
an eating establishment in which diners are served food
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See also
- bar
- cook, chef
- drive-in
- fast food
- grill
- menu, Appendix:Menus
- slow food
- waiter m, waitress f, waitron
Afrikaans
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
Noun
restaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Verb
restaurant
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
Noun
restaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛstoːˈrɑnt/, /rɛstuˈrɑnt/, /rɛstəˈrɑnt/
Audio (male) (file) Audio (female) (file) - Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
- Rhymes: -ɑnt
Noun
restaurant n (plural restaurants or restauranten, diminutive restaurantje n)
Usage notes
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.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: restaurant
- → Caribbean Hindustani: restoránt
- → Caribbean Javanese: rèstoran, lèstoran
- → Indonesian: restoran
French
Etymology
From the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurans, restaurantem.
Pronunciation
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Participle
restaurant
Related terms
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: ресторант m (restorant)
- → Catalan: restaurant m
- → Danish: restaurant c
- → Dutch: restaurant n
- Afrikaans: restaurant
- → Indonesian: restoran
- → English: restaurant
- → German: Restaurant n
- →? Italian: ristorante m
- → Japanese: レストラン (resutoran)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: restaurant m
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: restaurant m
- → Portuguese: restaurante m
- → Romanian: restaurant n
- → Russian: рестора́н (restorán), рестора́нъ (restorán)
- → Uzbek: restoran
- → Yakut: эрэстэрээн (erestereen)
- → Spanish: restaurante m
- → Swedish: restaurang c
- → Turkish: restoran
Further reading
- “restaurant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Latin
Verb
restaurant
Norman
Etymology
Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
Noun
restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)
References
- “restaurant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Noun
restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restaurantar, definite plural restaurantane)
References
- “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
restaurant n (plural restaurante)