noun
restaurant
REHST-ront
noun
1
A business where meals are prepared and served to customers, usually for payment.
"We booked a table at a new Italian restaurant downtown."
"The restaurant was fully booked on Valentine's Day."
How to Use Restaurant
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA place you go to eat a meal that someone else cooks and serves.
Common pairings
fine-dining restaurant
restaurant reservation
run a restaurant
Word Forms
restaurants plural
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Etymology
Borrowed from French restaurant, originally meaning "restorative," from restaurer ("to restore"). It first named a nourishing soup sold in early Parisian eating houses before coming to mean the establishment itself.