eatery

eatery

English

An eatery.

Alternative forms

• eaterie

Etymology

eat +‎ -ery

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːtəɹi/

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Noun

eatery (plural eateries)

1. (informal) A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.
   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:

     Above the concourse, the underneath of the platforms has been clad with attractive wood panelling, while the columns holding them up are surrounded with seating - for use by passengers biding their time waiting for their trains, or who have used one of the 70-or-so eateries or shops that form part of the retail developments at the station.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:restaurant

   Coordinate term: luncheonette

   Hypernym: eating establishment

Translations

a restaurant or café

Belarusian: заку́сачная f (zakúsačnaja), стало́вая f (stalóvaja), харчэ́ўня f (xarčéŭnja), харчо́ўня f (xarčóŭnja), стра́ўня f (stráŭnja) Chinese: Dungan: гуанзы (guanzɨ) Mandarin: 小飯館／小饭馆 (zh) (xiǎofànguǎn), 小餐館／小餐馆 (xiǎocānguǎn), 館子／馆子 (zh) (guǎnzi) Dutch: eetcafé (nl) n Esperanto: manĝejo Finnish: ruokapaikka French: resto (fr) m Georgian: რესტორანი (resṭorani), დუქანი (dukani) German: Esslokal n Indonesian: kedai makan, warung makan Japanese: 料理店 (ja) (りょうりてん, ryōriten), 食堂 (ja) (しょくどう, shokudō) Korean: 음식점 (ko) (eumsikjeom) Latin: popīna (la) f, gānea f (cheap or lower-class) Latvian: ēstuve f Malay: kedai makan (ms), medan selera (ms) Mongolian: зуушны газар (zuušny gazar), гуанз (mn) (guanz) Polish: knajpa (pl) Portuguese: lanchonete (pt) f (Brazil) Russian: столо́вая (ru) f (stolóvaja), заку́сочная (ru) f (zakúsočnaja), (colloquial, cheap or low quality) забега́ловка (ru) (zabegálovka), кафете́рий (ru) m (kafɛtɛ́rij), харче́вня (ru) f (xarčévnja), столо́вка (ru) f (stolóvka) Spanish: comedor (es) m Ukrainian: пере́кусна f (perékusna), їда́льня (uk) f (jidálʹnja), харчі́вня f (xarčívnja) Vietnamese: hàng ăn, quán ăn

Further reading

• “eatery”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “eatery”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Anagrams

• Yeater