🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

comida de restaurante

Pronunciation / Transliteration: koˈmi.ða ðe res.tauˈɾan.te

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Restaurant-meal/ˈrɛs.tər.ɒnt miːl/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Disfrutamos mucho de nuestra comida de restaurante."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A prepared food service purchased and consumed at a commercial dining establishment.

    "They decided to celebrate their anniversary with a lavish restaurant-meal downtown."
  2. 2

    Food ordered from a restaurant for consumption, contrasted with home-cooked food.

    "The family budget allows for only one restaurant-meal per week."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'restaurant', derived from the French verb restaurer (to restore or refresh), originating from Latin restaurare, and 'meal', from Old English mǣl (time, fixed time, or repast). Historically rooted in European culinary culture, the compound has evolved in modern socio-economic contexts to specifically designate food prepared and consumed outside the home in a commercial establishment.

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