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.
- 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.
- That Japanese restaurant serves the best Asian food I've ever had in my life.
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:restaurant
Derived terms
- resto
Related terms
- restaurateur
Translations
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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
- restourant
Etymology
From Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛstʊə̯ˈrant/, /rɛstuˈrant/
Audio (file)
Noun
restaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)
- restaurant
Catalan
Etymology
From French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /rəs.təwˈɾant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /rəs.təwˈɾan/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /res.tawˈɾant/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ant
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
- restaurant
Verb
restaurant
- present participle of restaurar
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʁɛsd̥oˈʁɑŋ]
Noun
restaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)
- restaurant
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)
- restaurant
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
- afhaalrestaurant
- brugrestaurant
- café-restaurant
- meeneemrestaurant
- snelwegrestaurant
- sterrenrestaurant
- wegrestaurant
- zelfbedieningsrestaurant
- ziekenhuisrestaurant
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
- IPA(key): /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/
Audio (file) Audio (file)
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
- restaurant
Participle
restaurant
- present participle of restaurer
Related terms
- restaurer
- restauration
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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
restaurant
- third-person plural present active indicative of restaurō
Norman
Etymology
Either inherited from Old French or borrowed from French.
Noun
restaurant m (plural restaurants)
- restaurant
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛstʉˈrɑŋ/
Noun
restaurant m (definite singular restauranten, indefinite plural restauranter, definite plural restaurantene)
- a restaurant
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)
- a restaurant
References
- “restaurant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From French restaurant.
Noun
restaurant n (plural restaurante)
- restaurant