| 单词 | eatery |
| 释义 | eatery (once / 22774 pages) n Use the word eatery when you're talking about a cafe or restaurant. You might stop at a great local eatery for a burger after seeing a movie. Eatery is a casual or informal word for a place to buy and eat prepared food. A diner is one kind of eatery, and a Chinese restaurant is another. You might have a favorite eatery among all the choices on a college campus, or know of an all-night eatery where you can get a snack at three a.m. Eatery was first used right around 1901, from eat, with its Old English root of etan, "to eat, devour, or consume." WORD FAMILYeatery: eateries+/eat: ate, eatable, eaten, eater, eatery, eating, eats, overeat/eatable: eatables, uneatable/eater: eaters/eating: eatings/overeat: overeating, overeats/uneatable: uneatably USAGE EXAMPLESWhich led Ken Charney to ask me if the Columbia Heights eatery, awarded 3½ stars in my fall dining guide, is suitable for a vegetarian. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) Sunken Hundred, Brooklyn’s first Welsh restaurant, wins the award for friendliest eatery. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) County Legislator Chris Higgins, an Albany Democrat, introduced legislation earlier this year that would extend the ban to all eateries that use polystyrene products. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) n a building where people go to eat Syn|Hypo|Hyper eating house, eating place, restaurant bistro a small informal restaurant; serves wine brasseriea small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap brewpuba combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with food cafe, coffee bar, coffee shop, coffeehousea small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold cafeteriaa restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier canteenrestaurant in a factory; where workers can eat canteen, mobile canteena restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen dinera restaurant that resembles a dining car greasy spoona small restaurant specializing in short-order fried foods grill, grillrooma restaurant where food is cooked on a grill hash housean inexpensive restaurant lunchrooma restaurant (in a facility) where lunch can be purchased rotisseriea restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats chophouse, steakhousea restaurant that specializes in steaks tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom, teashopa restaurant where tea and light meals are available automata cafeteria where food is served from machines butterya teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals caffinformal British term for a cafe cybercafea cafe whose customers sit at computer terminals and log on to the internet while they eat and drink espresso shopa cafe where espresso is served estamineta small (and usually shabby) cafe selling wine and beer and coffee pull-in, pull-upa roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers building, edifice a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place |
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