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bento

Syllables: ben·toUK/ˈbɛntəʊ//ˈbɛnˌtoʊ/

bento noun: a Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.

Noun

bento (plural bento or bentos)

  1. (also, attributive) A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.
    Synonyms:
    bento box
  2. Synonym of bento box (“a partitioned, traditionally lacquered, lunchbox in which a Japanese takeaway lunch is served”).
    Synonyms:
    bento box
  3. (Singapore, broadly) A generic meal packed in a disposable bento box.
    • Typical Singaporean lunch bento wolved down in 5 minutes2020, Chan Joon Yee, Not Quite Over The Hill: Swinging My Way to 60 and Beyond, Dewdrop Books
  4. A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.
  5. A layout consisting of cards arranged in a modular, irregularly partitioned grid.

bento meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Arabic and Indonesian

bento in Hindi

Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box
बेन्तो bento, बेंतो bento

bento in Marathi

Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box
बेन्तो bento

bento in Arabic

Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box
بِنْتُو bintū

bento in Indonesian

Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box
bento
More languagesFewer languages
bento in Persian
بنتو bentô
bento in Thai
เบ็นโต ben-dtoo
bento in Vietnamese
cơm hộp, bento

Synonyms of bento

Forms of bento

pluralbento
pluralbentos
alternative formbentō

Origin of bento

Borrowed from Japanese 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō). Doublet of biandang.

Words formed from bento

Phrases with bento

Words that rhyme with bento

Questions about bento

What does bento mean?
Bento means a Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.
What is bento in Hindi?
Bento in Hindi is बेन्तो (bento), बेंतो (bento). See Bento meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bento?
Bento is a noun.
How do you pronounce bento?
Bento is pronounced /ˈbɛntəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of bento?
The plural of bento is bento.

Words near bento in the dictionary

  1. Bentleyan
  2. Bentleys
  3. Bently
  4. Bentlys
  5. bentness
  6. bento
  7. bento box
  8. bento boxes
  9. Benton
  10. Benton City
  11. Benton County

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bento (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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