What does restaurant mean?
Word: Restaurant
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Restaurant means a place where you pay to sit and eat a meal that is cooked and served to you.
Synonyms: cafe
How do you spell restaurant?
Syllables: res - tau - rant
Tricky part: The au in the middle is barely heard when people say the word quickly, so it is the part most often lost or swapped round.
Watch out for: resturant, restarant, restraunt
Memory tip: The two middle vowels are a then u, the same pair that begins August. Think of a restaurant meal in August.
Restaurant in a sentence
Example 1: We booked a table at a seafood restaurant for Grandma's birthday.
Example 2: The restaurant on the top floor looks out over the whole lake.
Example 3: This restaurant grows its own mint and coriander in pots on the terrace.
Fun Fact
The word comes from the French restaurer, to restore. In 18th-century Paris a restaurant was first a rich soup sold to bring back a tired person's strength.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The new restaurent near Marine Drive serves crisp waffles and filter coffee until midnight.
a) crisp
b) midnight
c) Marine
d) restaurent
Show answer
d) restaurent. Restaurant finishes with the same ant as elephant.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) restaurant
b) resipe
c) cuisene
d) cafetiria
Show answer
a) restaurant. Cuisine ends in ine, cafeteria has eria and recipe is spelt with a c.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
restaurant
a) larder
b) pantry
c) eatery
d) grocery
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c) eatery. An eatery is any place that serves meals, just like a restaurant; a pantry and a larder only store food.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
utarrtsane
a) resultant
b) restraint
c) reluctant
d) restaurant
Show answer
d) restaurant. With no i or l among the letters, restraint, resultant and reluctant are all ruled out.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Nikhil's family went to a restaurant on Sunday. What did they most likely do there?
a) posted a parcel to a friend
b) borrowed books for a week
c) bought tickets for a train
d) ordered a meal and paid the bill
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d) ordered a meal and paid the bill
2. Which person is most likely to work in a restaurant kitchen?
a) an architect
b) a pilot
c) a chef
d) a plumber
Show answer
c) a chef
