Definition of restaurant
: a business establishment where meals or refreshments may be purchased
Updated on: 7 Jun 2018
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Examples of restaurant in a Sentence
when we get sick of cooking dinner at home, we like to go out to eat at a nice restaurant
Recent Examples of restaurant from the Web
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Their plans include: • Converting a 19th-century former brewery building, 6411 W. Mequon Road, into a 6,800-square-foot restaurant and beer hall known as Foxtown Brewery.
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After the crash, the women fled the vehicle and were arrested at a nearby restaurant.
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The funeral service for Amanda Self, one of the two women killed when a Jeep crashed into a Bessemer City restaurant during a family lunch on May 20, was held Sunday afternoon in Gastonia.
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Police responded to a report of a kidnapping at the McDonald’s restaurant on Albany Avenue about 8:20 a.m. Saturday.
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The image of a shivering Mainieri rushing into an Oregon restaurant illustrates just how far his LSU baseball team is from home.
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Image Two masked bombers walked into a crowded restaurant near Toronto and detonated a homemade explosive that wounded at least 15 people.
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The Nortons and the Pierces met for dinner at a restaurant in Mesa and drew up plans.
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Tilghman fired a handgun into the restaurant on Thursday striking a 39-year-old woman and two young girls before being shot dead by two bystanders outside who were able to make it to their vehicles amid the chaos to retrieve their guns.
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Origin and Etymology of restaurant
French, from present participle of restaurer to restore, from Latin restaurare
restaurant Synonyms
Related Words
cafeteria, lunch counter, luncheonette, lunchroom, snack bar;
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RESTAURANT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of restaurant for English Language Learners
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: a place where you can buy and eat a meal
RESTAURANT Defined for Kids
Definition of restaurant for Students
: a public eating place
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