restaurant

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/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛs.t(ə)ˌɹɑnt/, /ˈɹɛs.t(ə).ɹənt/

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restaurant (plural restaurants)

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.
   • 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:pub

• resto

• restaurateur

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

From Latin restaurans, restaurantem; calque of French restaurant.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /rəs.təwˈɾant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /rəs.təwˈɾan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /res.tawˈɾant/
• Rhymes: -ant

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

restaurant

1. present participle of restaurar

Borrowed from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key): /rɛstoːˈrɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant

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

1. restaurant

• afhaalrestaurant
• brugrestaurant
• café-restaurant
• meeneemrestaurant
• snelwegrestaurant
• sterrenrestaurant
• wegrestaurant
• zelfbedieningsrestaurant
• ziekenhuisrestaurant

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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

rēstaurant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of rēstaurō

Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

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.

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.

restaurant n (plural restaurante)

1. restaurant