eatery

English

An eatery.

Alternative forms

• eaterie

Etymology

Etymology tree

English eat

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -ārius

Old French -ier

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Old French -ie

Old French -eriebor.

Middle English -erie

English -ery

English eatery

From eat + -ery.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːtəɹi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

eatery (plural eateries)

1. (informal) A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:restaurant

   Hypernym: eating establishment

   Coordinate term: luncheonette

   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:

     Above the concourse, the underneath of the platforms has been clad with attractive wood panelling, while the columns holding them up are surrounded with seating - for use by passengers biding their time waiting for their trains, or who have used one of the 70-or-so eateries or shops that form part of the retail developments at the station.

Derived terms

• streatery

Translations

a restaurant or café

• Belarusian: заку́сачная f (zakúsačnaja), стало́вая f (stalóvaja), харчэ́ўня f (xarčéwnja), харчо́ўня f (xarčównja), стра́ўня f (stráwnja)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: гуанзы (guanzɨ)

  Mandarin: 小飯館 / 小饭馆 (zh) (xiǎofànguǎn), 小餐館 / 小餐馆 (xiǎocānguǎn), 館子 / 馆子 (zh) (guǎnzi)

• Dutch: eetcafé (nl) n, eterij (nl) n
• Esperanto: manĝejo
• Finnish: ruokapaikka
• French: resto (fr) m
• Galician: restaurante
• Georgian: რესტორანი (resṭorani), დუქანი (ka) (dukani)
• German: Esslokal (de) n
• Greek: φαγάδικο (el) n (fagádiko), καφεστιατόριο (el) (kafestiatório)
• Indonesian: kedai makan, warung makan, rumah makan (id)
• Japanese: 料理店 (ja) (りょうりてん, ryōriten), 食堂 (ja) (しょくどう, shokudō)
• Korean: 음식점 (ko) (eumsikjeom)
• Latin: popīna (la) f, gānea f (cheap or lower-class)
• Latvian: ēstuve f
• Malay: kedai makan (ms), medan selera (ms)
• Mongolian: зуушны газар (zuušny gazar), гуанз (mn) (guanz)
• Polish: knajpa (pl)
• Portuguese: lanchonete (pt) f (Brazil)
• Russian: столо́вая (ru) f (stolóvaja), заку́сочная (ru) f (zakúsočnaja), (colloquial, cheap or low quality) забега́ловка (ru) (zabegálovka), кафете́рий (ru) m (kafɛtɛ́rij), харче́вня (ru) f (xarčévnja), столо́вка (ru) f (stolóvka)
• Spanish: comedor (es) m, restaurante (es) m, restorán (es) m
• Tagalog: kainan
• Ukrainian: пере́кусна f (perékusna), їда́льня (uk) f (jidálʹnja), харчі́вня f (xarčívnja)
• Vietnamese: hàng ăn, quán ăn
• Yiddish: עסערײַ f (eseray), עסלאָקאַל m (eslokal)

Further reading

• “eatery”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “eatery”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Yeater