RESTAURANT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of restaurant in English

Examples from literature
  • All of the food was wrapped in paper that showed the name of the restaurant. 
  • At a sushi restaurant, you sit and the table moves! 
  • He worked in restaurants and put the money away for his trip. 
  • He’s in the food business: he works in a restaurant. 
  • In an expensive part of a city, restaurant space costs a lot, and so do the pizzas. 
  • In some places the law says that people cannot smoke in restaurants. 
  • It has many stores – and some very expensive restaurants and cafés! 
  • It was cold near the door in the restaurant, so I moved to a different table. 
  • It’s sold by restaurants, supermarkets, and pizza delivery stores. 
  • Many pizza restaurants and delivery stores are franchises. 
  • Or call your favorite restaurants and pay them to send food to your house. 
  • Paris has restaurants from nearly every country in the world. 
  • There are beautiful hotels and great restaurants – French cooking is also famous. 
  • They stay at hotels, eat in restaurants, and buy things in shops. 
  • Think of people working in restaurant kitchens or builders working outside in the heat of the sun. 
(Definition of restaurant from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of restaurant from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of restaurant from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of restaurant

restaurant
How can we account for the existence of an effective norm that directs strangers to leave tips in restaurants that they will never visit again?
Although he starts work again at noon time, he has to return to the restaurant at about eleven in the morning and get everything prepared.
Restaurant visits and participation in study circles almost tripled and attending cultural activities doubled.
As an interesting example, consider the exchanges that take place when ordering in a fast-food restaurant.
A small museum as well as a snack bar, a restaurant, and a souvenir shop were built in the vicinity of the attraction.
These elements combine to create a profile that is an outright denial of the semiotics of the meyhanes and the luxury seafood restaurants.
Similarly, he eats and drinks at the restaurant because of desires generated by internal mechanisms of hunger and thirst.
Consumption of chicken at restaurants or canteens was associated with an increased risk and explained 11 % of the cases.
Illness in the community was associated with the consumption of foods in restaurants or drinking unpasteurized milk.
They were more likely to report the consumption of organic vegetables, vegetarian foods, food in restaurants, unpasteurized milk or bottled water.
Interviews included questions about food consumption at 22 chain restaurants because case interviews suggested a common exposure to one of two restaurant chains.
He will sell the crops to customers at farmers' markets and restaurants within 40 miles of his farm.
The restaurant seats approximately 200 dining customers with a bar0waiting area that seats an additional 100 customers.
For example, in a restaurant setting, utterances might be activated by clicking on the glass on the table, the menu or the bill.
Environmental investigations of local clusters supported the hypothesis that lettuce prepared in fast food restaurants was the likely source of infection.
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Collocations with restaurant

restaurant

These are words often used in combination with restaurant.

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barbecue restaurant
The menu eventually incorporated hamburgers, and then shifted into a barbecue restaurant.
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drive-in restaurant
He took a corner too fast and lost control of the car, which rolled down an embankment and crashed into a drive-in restaurant.
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ethnic restaurant
As an interim measure, some of these rather ramshackle houses and factories were leased to short-term tenants such as rock studios and ethnic restaurants.
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Translations of restaurant

in Chinese (Traditional)
飯店, 餐館, 菜館…
in Chinese (Simplified)
饭店, 餐馆, 菜馆…
in Spanish
restaurante, restaurante [masculine, singular]…
in Portuguese
restaurante, restaurante [masculine]…
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उपाहारगृह…
レストラン, 料理店…
lokanta, restaurant, restoran…
restaurant [masculine], restaurant…
restaurant…
restaurant…
உணவு தயாரிக்கப்பட்டு வாடிக்கையாளர்களுக்கு வழங்கப்படும் இடம்…
रेस्तराँ…
એવી જગ્યા જ્યાં ખાવાની વસ્તુઓ, વ્યંજનો બને અને લોકોને, ગ્રાહકોને આપાય…
restaurant…
restaurang…
restoran…
das Restaurant…
restaurant [masculine], restaurant…
ریستوراں…
ресторан…
ресторан…
రెస్టారెంట్…
مَطْعَم…
রেস্তোরাঁ, ভোজনালয়…
restaurace…
rumah makan…
ร้านอาหาร…
nhà hàng…
restauracja…
레스토랑, 식당…
ristorante…
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/ˈsjuː.də.nɪm/
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/ˈsuː.də.nɪm/

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