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carte

carte

16 8.8
A list of dishes at a restaurant
  • noun
  • /kɑrt/
translation icon : carta
  • carte blanche
  • la carte
  • carte de visite

So the idea was make these videos, put them up on YouTube, and then the guys can sell them a la carte or whatever.

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Examples

  • However, none of the teachers provide carte blanche to their students to select books completely free of teacher supervision.

    Academic text (2012)
  • She'd been given carte blanche, and she had furnished her room as she wished.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • The NSC no longer has carte blanche to obtain any information or document it wishes.

    Academic text (2004)
  • You don't have carte blanche, Mr Urazov.

  • You have carte blanche.

  • The restaurant's carte features a wide variety of dishes, from pasta to seafood.

  • Before deciding where to eat, I always check the carte online to see what they offer.

  • During our dinner, the waiter handed us the carte so we could choose our meals.

Synonyms

menu
vscarte
344 1.0

A list of food and drinks you can order at a restaurant

focuses only on dishes rather than including drinks
a la carte
vscarte
1 5.1

A menu where each dish is ordered and priced separately

is the general list of dishes, not a separate pricing system
bill of fare
vscarte
  • Archaic
1 5.3

A list of dishes served at a restaurant

is the same idea but is the shorter, more modern word
carte du jour
vscarte
8.7

A list of dishes a restaurant offers today

is broader, naming all dishes not only today's choices

Compounds

11 8.1

Freedom to act without asking permission

1 5.1

A menu where each dish is ordered and priced separately

1 4.3

Ordering food by choosing each dish and paying for it separately

A list of dishes a restaurant offers today

Surface Forms

carte singular
cartes plural

Etymology

Carte comes from the Latin charta, which means 'paper' or 'card' and is related to the English word chart. So a carte is simply a paper list — at a restaurant it is the menu, the list of dishes.