restaurant

[ res-tuh-rahnt, -trahnt ]

/ ˈrɛs təˌrɑnt, -trɑnt /

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noun

an establishment where meals are served to customers.

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Origin of restaurant

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

Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
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Tool around Capitol Hill, which brims gay bars, restaurants, and clubs.
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In a world without motels and restaurants, people were required to welcome strangers into their homes.
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But for most people in Donetsk there is nowhere to go in the evening with most restaurants and bars closed.
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They ascended to the finest of these restaurants and found a merchant's party eating at round tables from dolls' plates.
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On the balconies of the upper and greater restaurants were valuable jars and vases full of plants and flowers.
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Thomas Downing, for thirty years, in the city of New York, has been proprietor of one of the leading restaurants.
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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.
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The French, Italian, and Spanish restaurants are exactly what they claim to be; their very atmosphere might have been imported.
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British Dictionary definitions for restaurant

restaurant

/ (ˈrɛstəˌrɒŋ, ˈrɛstrɒŋ, -rɒnt) /

noun

a commercial establishment where meals are prepared and served to customers

Word Origin for restaurant

C19: from French, from restaurer to restore

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