eating place
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1.0
- noun
- Archaic
:
lugar para comer
- We decided to meet at a cozy eating place downtown for lunch.
- temporary eating place
- public eating places
Examples
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It is an inn, an eating place, certainly.
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And you saw Route 41: there are tons of eating places in Florida for your poor hungry daddy.
Fiction book (1990) -
The building held eating places, too.
Fiction book (2000) -
This study describes for the first time workers in temporary public eating places and documents their food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices.
Academic text (1993) -
He'd like some nice eating places with self-service along the way.
Fiction book (1992) -
Members of fraternal and service clubs, churches, and firehalls frequently operate public eating places.
Academic text (1993) -
"Hundreds and hundreds of Chicago's elite" waited to be let into the "most beautiful, perfectly appointed" eating place in the Black Metropolis.
Academic text (1999) -
I remember I was well into my late teens before it felt normal to go into a restaurant (or any eating place with a printed menu) with other teenagers but no adults at the same table.
Blog text (25) -
There weren't many eating places in the neighborhood, and I was just about to give up when I came upon a glass-front establishment on whose window was laboriously painted "Restaurant New Yorkais."
Academic text (1990) -
There are many eating places near the park that offer outdoor seating.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people pay to eat meals prepared for them
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1.0
A place where people serve themselves from a counter and pay before they eat
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3.1
A place like a restaurant or café where people eat
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1.6
A place where people buy and eat meals, like a restaurant or café
How Fancy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place where people eat' is directly and transparently composed from 'eating' (the act of consuming food) + 'place' (a location). This simple compositional pattern (place for X) is common cross-linguistically and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The phrase eating place is a very plain name: a place for eating. So it means 'a place to eat', like a restaurant or café.