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eatery

/ˈiːtəɹi/

eatery noun: a restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.

eatery: a restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food
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Noun

eatery (plural eateries)

  1. (informal) A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.
    • Above the concourse, the underneath of the platforms has been clad with attractive wood panelling, while the columns holding them up are surrounded with seating - for use by passengers biding their time waiting for their trains, or who have used one of the 70-or-so eateries or shops that form part...2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31

eatery meaning in Tamil, Tagalog, Malay and Indonesian

eatery in Tamil

ஒரு சிறிய உணவகம்

eatery in Tagalog

a restaurant or café
kainan

eatery in Malay

a restaurant or café
kedai makan, medan selera

eatery in Indonesian

a restaurant or café
kedai makan, warung makan, rumah makan
More languagesFewer languages
eatery in Vietnamese
hàng ăn, quán ăn

Examples of eatery in a sentence

  • Word is that the eatery will reopen soon under new management.
  • The H Street corridor eatery closed late last year after less than two years.
  • This longtime West End eatery prepares chicken the way locals like it: curried, fried, jerked, and baked.

All 17 example sentences with eatery

Synonyms of eatery

6 more synonymsFewer synonyms

All synonyms of eatery

Forms of eatery

pluraleateries
alternative formeaterie
alternative form (rare)eateria

Origin of eatery

From eat + -ery.

Words formed from eatery

Questions about eatery

What does eatery mean?
Eatery means a restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.
What is eatery in Tamil?
Eatery in Tamil is ஒரு சிறிய உணவகம். See Eatery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is eatery?
Eatery is a noun.
How do you pronounce eatery?
Eatery is pronounced /ˈiːtəɹi/.
What is the plural of eatery?
The plural of eatery is eateries.

Words near eatery in the dictionary

  1. eaterias
  2. eaterie
  3. eateries
  4. eaters
  5. eatertainment
  6. eatery
  7. eates
  8. eatest
  9. eateth
  10. eath
  11. eather

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eatery (page history and authors); eatery (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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