restaurant
part of speech
noun (a restaurant, restaurants)
meaning for a pupil
A place where people pay to sit and eat meals that are cooked and served there. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, at a restaurant you look at a menu, order from a waiter or waitress, eat, then pay the bill; in many countries people also leave a tip. In maths, restaurant problems ask you to add up a bill, share it between people, or work out change. In manners lessons, you learn to sit nicely, use cutlery and say please and thank you to staff. Phrases: go to a restaurant, eat at a restaurant, fast-food restaurant, Italian restaurant, restaurant bill.
examples
- We went to a restaurant for Dad's birthday. tree →
- The restaurant was full, so we waited for a table. tree →
- I ordered pasta at the Italian restaurant. tree →
- The bill at the restaurant came to 48 dollars. tree →
- Four friends shared the restaurant bill equally. tree →
- Remember to say thank you to the waiter. tree →
- The restaurant kitchen must be very clean. tree →
note
Countable: a restaurant, two restaurants. Spelling trap: r-e-s-t-a-u-r-a-n-t, the "au" is easy to forget. It is pronounced REST-ront or REST-uh-ront. A café is smaller and simpler; a takeaway (UK, Australia) or takeout (USA) sells food to eat elsewhere. In maths, splitting a bill means dividing the total by the number of people.
In the corpora
- Some restaurants use simple robots, guided by sensors, to carry food to tables.
- In a restaurant you speak quietly, stay in your seat and are polite to the waiter.
- They set a timer for ten minutes each, then decide to run a pretend restaurant together.
- In US restaurants people usually leave a tip of about 15 to 20 percent, because it is part of the waiter's pay.
- Restaurant kitchens and dining rooms are full of hot food, plates and sharp things, so running there causes burns and cuts.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «restaurant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.