restaurant

Other forms of restaurant

plural

restaurants·

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 restaurant

What does restaurant mean?

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

How many syllables are in restaurant?

restaurant has 3 syllables: res-tau-rant. The stress falls on "res". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛstɚˌɑnt/.

What is another word for restaurant?

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

restaurant is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.