eatery

Other forms of eatery

plural

eateries·

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.

Questions about eatery

What does eatery mean?

eatery means "a building where people go to eat".

How many syllables are in eatery?

eatery has 3 syllables: ea-te-ry. The stress falls on "ea". In IPA it is /ˈitɚi/.

What is another word for eatery?

Close synonyms include restaurant, eating house, eating place. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eatery a common word?

eatery is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.