cabaret

[ kab-uh-rey for 1–4, 6, 7; kab-uh-ret for 5 ]

/ ˌkæb əˈreɪ for 1–4, 6, 7; ˈkæb əˌrɛt for 5 /

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noun

a restaurant providing food, drink, music, a dance floor, and often a floor show.

a café that serves food and drink and offers entertainment often of an improvisatory, satirical, and topical nature.

a floor show consisting of such entertainment: The cover charge includes dinner and a cabaret.

a form of theatrical entertainment, consisting mainly of political satire in the form of skits, songs, and improvisations: an actress whose credits include cabaret, TV, and dinner theater.

a decoratively painted porcelain coffee or tea service with tray, produced especially in the 18th century.

Archaic. a shop selling wines and liquors.

verb (used without object), cab·a·reted [kab-uh-reyd] /ˌkæb əˈreɪd/, cab·a·ret·ing [kab-uh-rey-ing] /ˌkæb əˈreɪ ɪŋ/.

to attend or frequent cabarets.

Nearby words

caballero, caballé, cabana, cabanatuan, cabane, cabaret, cabaret tax, cabbage, cabbage aphid, cabbage bug, cabbage butterfly

Origin of cabaret

1625–35; < French: tap-room, Middle French dial. (Picard or Walloon) < Middle Dutch, denasalized variant of cambret, cameret < Picard camberete small room (cognate with French chambrette; see chamber, -ette)

SYNONYMS FOR cabaret

2 nightclub, supper club, club.

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Examples from the Web for cabaret

Then we were dropping in on some cabaret in Denver, or perhaps it was a restaurant in Nevada.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like Fosse did with Cabaret, Marshall excised two major characters: the Narrator and the Mysterious Man.
Rob Marshall Defends ‘Into the Woods’|Kevin Fallon|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Later, at the Rose.Rabbit.Lie club, Amber spontaneously sing “Proud Mary” with a cabaret singer.
Best Career Arc Ever: From Burlesque To Bartending|Anne Berry|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Blacklace also hosts nights for Killing Kittens, a sex club of sorts with cabaret acts held at venues around the U.K.
Inside London's Underground Burlesque and Fetish Scene|Liza Foreman|August 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Alan Cumming shimmered darkly and brilliantly as the emcee in the Cabaret performance.
Hugh Jackman's Tony Jumping Fail, Plus the Winners and Standout Moments of Broadway's Biggest Night|Tim Teeman|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He had married again, a woman in his own rank of life, and was keeping a cabaret in the Rue du Bac.
Notwithstanding|Mary Cholmondeley
Much credit must be given to those few guests who realized that the gym was supposed to represent a cabaret.
The 1926 Tatler|Various
Following the entrance of the Americans, the cabaret had gradually filled.
Zut and Other Parisians|Guy Wetmore Carryl
It is intended for Isadore Schwartz, a wicked cousin of his who is a victim of the cabaret habit.
You Should Worry Says John Henry|George V. Hobart
In addition to what I have saved I shall have the price of the cabaret.
Won by the Sword|G.A. Henty

British Dictionary definitions for cabaret

cabaret

/ (ˈkæbəˌreɪ) /

noun

a floor show of dancing, singing, or other light entertainment at a nightclub or restaurant

mainly US a nightclub or restaurant providing such entertainment

Word Origin for cabaret

C17: from Norman French: tavern, probably from Late Latin camera an arched roof, chamber

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