restaurant

noun
/ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/UK/ˈɹɛst(ə)ˌɹɑnt/US/ˈrɛsˌʈɔ.rᵻnʈ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin restaurārebor. Old French restorer French restaurer French restaurantbor. English restaurant Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“to restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.

  1. derived from restaurans
  2. borrowed from restaurant

Definitions

  1. An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their…

    An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.

    • That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at restaurant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at restaurant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at restaurant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA