restaurant

• resto (clipping, slang)

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/, /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒ̃/, /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a restaurant”:

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛst(ə)ˌɹɑnt/, /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt/
• Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
• Rhymes: -ɛstəɹɒnt, -ɛstɹɒnt, -ɛstəɹɒ̃, -ɛstɹɒ̃, -ɛstəɹənt, -ɛstɹənt

restaurant (plural restaurants)

2. 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.

   • 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:restaurant

• restaurateur

• →? Japanese: レストラン
• → Malay: restoran

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

• restourant

From Dutch restaurant, from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key): /rɛstʊə̯ˈrant/, /rɛstuˈrant/

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restaurant (plural restaurante or restaurants, diminutive restaurantjie)

1. restaurant

Borrowed from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [rəs.təwˈɾan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rəs.təwˈɾant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [res.tawˈɾant]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [res.tawˈɾan]

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• Rhymes: -ant

restaurant m (plural restaurants)

1. restaurant

restaurant

1. gerund of restaurar

Borrowed from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key): [ʁɛsd̥oˈʁɑŋ]

restaurant c (singular definite restauranten, plural indefinite restauranter)

1. restaurant

Borrowed from French restaurant.

• IPA^(key): /rɛstoːˈrɑnt/, /rɛstuˈrɑnt/, /rɛstəˈrɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: res‧tau‧rant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

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

1. restaurant

• Contrary to English, in Dutch this word is not used to refer to fast food establishments, which are instead referred to with terms such as snackbar (or non-generic terminology referring to the type of fast food served, such as dönerzaak, pizzeria, and so forth).
• 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.

• Afrikaans: restaurant
• → Caribbean Hindustani: restoránt
• → Caribbean Javanese: rèstoran, lèstoran
• → Indonesian: restoran

From the present participle of restaurer. Corresponds to Latin restaurāns, 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

restaurant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of restaurō

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.

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restaurant n (plural restaurante)

1. restaurant