restaurant
French, noun/ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/
restaurant is spelled R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T (10 letters) and appears 41 times per million words in written French, the 2,034th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Restaurant is a French masculine noun meaning “restaurant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of restaurer. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aliment ou nourriture qui revigore, d’où repas”.
What does restaurant mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerestaurant
verb
- 1
present participle of restaurer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Aliment ou nourriture qui revigore, d’où repas. 2. Établissement commercial où l’on vend des repas. 3. Service d’une collectivité servant des repas à leurs adhérents. 4. Pain de quatre-cents grammes dans certaines régions du sud de la France.
adjective: 1. Qui restaure, qui donne des forces.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of restaurant
- restaurants plural
- restaurante singular feminine
- restaurantes plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce restaurant?
- /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/
- \ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\
- [ʁɛs.tɔ.ˈʁɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to restaurant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is restaurant in French?
restaurant appears 41 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).