bento

[ ben-toh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Japanese Cooking.

, plural ben·tos; Japanese ben·to.

a meal, usually served in a lacquered or elaborately decorated box that is divided into sections for holding individual portions of food.

bento

/ ˈbɛntəʊ /

a thin box, made of plastic or lacquered wood, divided into compartments which contain small separate dishes comprising a Japanese meal, esp lunch

Origin of bento¹

< Japanese bentō, probably < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese bān manage, provide + dāng apply, i.e., provision for an eat-out meal

Origin of bento¹

Japanese bentō box lunch

News Bento: An aesthetically pleasing news aggregator that can hold as much news as you want to collect in it.

Before we get to the tips, one little bento box of warning: Tokyo is expensive.

About this time several windows in the car went up, and many voices took up the cry of "Bento."

After a stormy passage of six months, the Sam Bento cast anchor in the bay of Goa.

While Father Bento de Matos was in that island, two remarkable things occurred to him.

On the railway one is well catered for by the provision of bento (lunch) boxes, sold on the platforms of stations.

For example, in the ordinary 25-sen bento (lunch) box there are three or four different kinds of pickles.

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