{
    "term": "restaurant",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a place where you can buy and eat a meal",
            "labels": "(especially British English)(British English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We're going to try this Italian restaurant that just opened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They stopped at a fast-food restaurant on the way to the concert."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had a meal in a restaurant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We went to my favourite restaurant to celebrate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a restaurant chain/owner"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a self-service restaurant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "If you're too tired to cook, let's go to a restaurant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It operates 79 restaurants in 26 states."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Restaurant workers are often badly paid."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She decided to open her own restaurant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She eats at the hotel restaurant when she travels on business."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She frequented the restaurant on almost a weekly basis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She runs a family fish restaurant on the seafront."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hotel restaurant serves a buffet breakfast."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They argued the whole time we were at the restaurant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They walked out of the restaurant without paying."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We don't do a lot of restaurant dining."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had a quick meal in a small local restaurant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We would recommend this restaurant to anyone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a little restaurant I know in Paris"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a restaurant offering a wide variety of local specialities"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an Asian restaurant specializing in Thai cuisine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "hygiene standards in the restaurant industry"
                },
                {
                    "text": "some of the hottest restaurants in New York"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the country's most successful chain restaurants"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the few local shops and restaurants catering to summer visitors"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the increasing cost of restaurant meals"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["large", "little", "small"],
                "verb + restaurant": ["go out to", "go to", "visit"],
                "restaurant + verb": [
                    "offer something",
                    "serve something",
                    "specialize in something"
                ],
                "restaurant + noun": ["employee", "manager", "operator"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the restaurant", "in a/​the restaurant"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrestrɒnt/",
                "audio": "re/restaurant/restaurant__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrestrɑːnt//ˈrestərɑːnt/",
                "audio": "re/restaurant/restaurant__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 19th cent.: from French, from restaurer ‘provide food for’ (literally ‘restore to a former state’)."
}