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.
Example
“That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.”
Synonyms
- eating place
A kind of
- building
Kinds of restaurant
- coffee shop
- drive-thru
Related words
- resto
- breastaurant
- Chinese restaurant syndrome
- family restaurant
- ghost restaurant
- one-arm restaurant
- restaurant car
- restaurantgoer
- tiki restaurant
- restaurant-goer
- Chinese restaurant process
- overhead bridge restaurant
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "restaurans" (restaurans, restaurantis).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “restaurant” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.