restaurant

[ res-tuh-rahnt, -trahnt ]
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noun
  1. an establishment where meals are served to customers.

Origin of restaurant

1
An Americanism first recorded in 1820–30; from French, noun use of present participle of restaurer, from Latin restaurāre “to restore, reestablish”; cf. re-, store

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How to use restaurant in a sentence

  • They ascended to the finest of these restaurants and found a merchant's party eating at round tables from dolls' plates.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • On the balconies of the upper and greater restaurants were valuable jars and vases full of plants and flowers.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • Thomas Downing, for thirty years, in the city of New York, has been proprietor of one of the leading restaurants.

  • And there was music in all the saloons and restaurants; it rose and fell with the noise of the tin horn and the hoot of the happy.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • The French, Italian, and Spanish restaurants are exactly what they claim to be; their very atmosphere might have been imported.

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for restaurant

restaurant

/ (ˈrɛstəˌrɒŋ, ˈrɛstrɒŋ, -rɒnt) /


noun
  1. a commercial establishment where meals are prepared and served to customers

Origin of restaurant

1
C19: from French, from restaurer to restore

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