Synonyms for eatery
- noun
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Noun
restaurant, diner, cafeteria US CA, buffet, eating house, canteen, lunchroom, automat, beanery informal, luncheonette
Definitions
- n. 1
A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.
Related words
- Other spellings
- eaterie
Forms
- Plural
- eateries → restaurants, diners, cafeterias, buffets…
Example sentences
- restaurant We had a dinner of a kind at the cheap restaurant.
- buffet Benedito's restaurant has a Thursday brunch buffet.
- diner Chuck's Diner makes the best hamburgers in Boston.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| eatery | rising | |
| restaurant | rising | |
| buffet | rising | |
| diner | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- diner2
- 6 letters
- buffet2
- 7 letters
- canteen2, automat, beanery
- 9 letters
- cafeteria5, lunchroom2
- 10 letters
- restaurant3
- 12 letters
- luncheonette3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (diner2 = 2 syllables).