restaurant
Definitions
A place where people pay to sit and eat meals
餐厅，饭店
Root Breakdown
Root-derivedFrom French restaurant, literally 'restoring,' from restaurer (re- 'again' + the staur-/stāre 'set up, stand' family). It first named a rich broth that 'restored' your strength; by the 1700s a Parisian shop selling such restoratives took the name, and it shifted to mean the eatery itself.
Root st still carries 376 more wordsWhy It Means This
Surprisingly, restaurant and restore are the same family — both from restaurāre, 'to restore.' The original restaurant wasn't a building but a dish: a fortifying broth that restored a tired body. The shops that sold it took the name, and within a century 'restaurant' stopped meaning the soup and came to mean the place. The t is silent in the borrowed French pronunciation.
Common Collocations
- 1.restaurant owner餐厅老板
- 2.restaurant chain连锁餐厅
- 3.fine dining restaurant高级餐厅
Example Sentences
- 1.
We tried a new Italian restaurant last night.
- 2.
The restaurant was fully booked for the weekend.