Restaurant

Part of speech: noun

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/

Definitions

1. An establishment where meals and drinks are prepared and served to customers for consumption on premises or for takeaway
2. A business that provides meals and beverages for diners in a designated area or for off-premises enjoyment encompasses various types and cuisines
3. An eating establishment where patrons can order food and drinks to be enjoyed on-site or taken away highlights diverse culinary options

Etymology: The word's first life was as a soup. In the Paris of the 1760s, a Parisian vendor (commonly named Boulanger, though the sources here don't name him) sold a "restorative" broth, and the French word "restaurant" originally referred to that restorative food itself. The name came from the verb "restaurer," meaning to restore, which passed into French from Latin "restaurare," a verb with the same sense of renewing or refreshing a body that had been depleted. Over time the name moved from the food to the place serving it. The present participle "restaurant," meaning "restoring," came to label the establishments that dispensed such restoratives, and English borrowed it from French as a term for an eating house. The word therefore traveled from a bowl of broth to a room full of tables, its sense shifting from the thing eaten to the place where people eat.

Synonyms: diner, eatery