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obento

obento is the alternative form of bento.

Meaning of bento

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.

Forms of obento

pluralobentos

Questions about obento

What is obento the alternative form of?
Obento is the alternative form of bento.

Words near obento in the dictionary

  1. obelized
  2. obelizes
  3. obelizing
  4. obelus
  5. obeluses
  6. obento
  7. obentos
  8. Ober
  9. Oberalp Pass
  10. Oberalpsee
  11. Oberammergau

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obento (page history and authors); 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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