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bento

[ ben-toh ]

noun

, Japanese Cooking.
, plural ben·tos; Japanese ben·to.
  1. a meal, usually served in a lacquered or elaborately decorated box that is divided into sections for holding individual portions of food.


bento

/ ˈbɛntəʊ /

noun

  1. a thin box, made of plastic or lacquered wood, divided into compartments which contain small separate dishes comprising a Japanese meal, esp lunch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bento1

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

Origin of bento1

Japanese bentō box lunch
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Example Sentences

I have seen my fair share of bento boxes scrolling through social media, but I always found them slightly absurd.

These bento box-style containers keep your pre-prepared meals ready to eat all day.

From new heated lunch boxes to the convenient bento boxes you can toss down a flight of stairs without spilling a drop of soup, there are dozens of great ways to pack your food quickly and safely.

When packed right, a bento box looks like a delicious work of art.

Larger bento boxes exist, so don’t assume you need to go small.

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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