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restaurant
What does restaurant mean?
restaurant (noun): a building where people go to eat.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Where does restaurant come from?
Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“to restore”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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