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say it: kab-ur-AY
cabaret is a noun meaning "a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink". It is pronounced /ˌkæbɚˈeɪ/ — kab-ur-AY. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
“don't expect a good meal at a cabaret”
“the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night”
“he played the drums at a jazz club”
a series of acts at a night club
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cabaret come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.