Restaurant Definition

rĕs-tə-ränt, -tər-ənt
restaurants
noun
restaurants
A place where meals can be bought and eaten.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Restaurant

Noun

Singular:
restaurant
Plural:
restaurants

Origin of Restaurant

  • Borrowing from French restaurant, from the verb restaurer, from Latin restaurans, present participle of restauro (“I restore"), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.

    From Wiktionary

  • French restorative soup, restaurant from present participle of restaurer to restore from Old French restorer restore

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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