eating place

Questions about eating place

What does eating place mean?

eating place means "a building where people go to eat".

What is another word for eating place?

Close synonyms include restaurant, eating house, eatery. 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 eating place a common word?

eating place is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.