restaurant

nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt//
United Kingdom//ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒ̃//
United Kingdom//ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt//
United States//ˈɹɛst(ə)ˌɹɑnt//
United States//ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt//

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.

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.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *sth₂u-ro-der. Proto-Italic *stauros Latin *staurō 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.

Forms

plural: restaurants

rest · Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.reST · Syllabic abbreviation of reStructuredText, a plain-text…restart · The act of starting something again.

restaurant · 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.

rested · recovered resting · The action of rest restless · Not allowing or affording rest.

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