eating house
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1.6
- noun
- Archaic
:
comedor
Examples
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In 1921, Edgar Ingram and Walter Anderson opened a small eating house in Wichita, Kansas, that inaugurated the White Castle hamburger chain.
Academic text (1998) -
We decided to try the new eating house that opened downtown, and we loved the ambiance.
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After the game, my friends and I went to a cozy eating house to grab some dinner.
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The eating house offers a variety of dishes, including pasta, burgers, and salads.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A place where people pay to eat meals prepared for them
218
1.0
A place where people serve themselves from a counter and pay before they eat
64
1.6
A restaurant that serves meat and fish cooked on a grill
25
1.0
A small place where people drink coffee and eat light food
21
3.1
A place like a restaurant or café where people eat
20
2.1
A large room in a college where many students eat meals
18
1.0
A room in a school or workplace where people can buy and eat lunch
16
4.9
A place outside town like a restaurant that serves food, drink, and live music and dancing
5
5.7
A small simple restaurant that serves coffee and sandwiches at a counter
4
2.7
A place where people drink tea and eat light food
2
2.0
A building where people drink alcohol and eat simple meals
1
1.0
A place where people go to eat, like a restaurant or cafe
A restaurant that serves mostly cooked fish and seafood
How Fancy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a building where people buy and eat meals' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'eating' (the act of taking food) with 'house' (a building), i.e. a house for eating. The pattern X + house (e.g. coffee house, boarding house) is productive in English and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Eating house comes from the simple image of a house where people were eating meals. Travelers would stop at such a house to rest and have food. So today eating house means a 'restaurant' or 'café' where people can buy and eat meals.