Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A restaurant.
Wiktionary
- n. a restaurant or café, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a building where people go to eat
Examples
“Besides its exterior neon sign, the most distinctive feature of the eatery is the maze-like wooden stalls that divide the diners.”
“The editor refused to print the word eatery, for restaurant, for example, or boast for have or don for wear or penned for wrote or queried for asked.”
“First, Britwick made their way to Williams-Sonoma to pick up a few household essentials and then they grabbed a bite to eat at the local Red Robin eatery:”
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“Now, one local Chinese eatery is taking advantage of the pricing downdraft by pouncing on a deal.”
“Sadly, this wonderful eatery is closing its doors as of today … I just got back and was nearly inconsolable on the trainride home …”
“This eatery is easy to miss, and I live on the same street as it and never took notice!”
“Diagonally across from the opera house, this popular eatery is dedicated to two of Mexico's all-time stars, Mazatlán-born Pedro Infante, the movie heartthrob who, although he's been dead for over 40 years, is very deeply woven into the fabric and life of Mazatlán, and Lola Beltran ( "La Grande)," the Sinaloa-born, world-famous mariachi songstress whose records have sold in the millions.”
“One of the stranger things that I see whenever I go to Dave and Buster's, the local arcade-and-eatery, is the Titanic game.”
“In this non-descript eatery is found the Holy Grail of Garlic Cheese Sandwiches.”
“Opening a new eatery is a big event, and the owners did not take it lightly.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eatery’.
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EN - trendy lifestyle words
private, tenacious, vogue, hoard, landscape, extravaganza, besiege, eatery, wrest, refurbish, enticing, breakout and 24 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
You Are Where You Eat
diner, brasserie, rotisserie, bistro, cafeteria, canteen, grillroom, steakhouse, teahouse, cafe, chophouse, greasy spoon and 22 more...
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A Place for Everything
spicery, creamery, perfumery, confectionery, bakery, fishery, chandlery, beanery, grocery, ashery, haberdashery, carvery and 54 more...
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So you want to write for Entertainme...
Or "The Enquirer". Or the E! channel. Or Entertainment Tonight. You opportunistic scab! Do you command the requisite vocabulary?
the red carpet, oprah, eatery, helm, greenlight, biopic, box office, swank hollywood e..., galpal, guypal, boytoy, celeb and 40 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eatery.
skipvia Ah. Had to look that one up. I'm not sure if you're referring to the TV show or the magazine. I rarely watch TV, but I was amused that their URL is www.ew.com. I mean, eewwww... Nov 11, 2007
sionnach EW = Entertainment Weekly. Nov 11, 2007
mollusque Such behavior in eateries is entouraging. Nov 11, 2007
skipvia Is "EW" an acronym for something, or are you referring to the ubiquitous "eeewwwww?" Nov 11, 2007
chained_bear That reminds me of all those incredibly irritating, yet very occasionally clever terms used in Variety: click here for a very teensy sample. Nov 11, 2007
reesetee That was actually quite painful to read. Nov 11, 2007
sionnach Yeah, but in EW-speak, celebs are always spotted by the paparazzi hanging out at the latest swank Hollywood eatery with their latest galpals or boytoys, possibly in deep discussion with their agents about landing a role in the forthcoming Springsteen biopic due to be helmed (or possibly lensed) by Spielberg. Nov 11, 2007
chained_bear I think beanery is pretty cute. Eatery is disgusting. Nov 11, 2007
skipvia Probably, palooka, and beanery must the second ugliest word in the word. Nov 11, 2007
palooka Is an eatery related to a beanery? Nov 10, 2007
skipvia This gets my vote as the ugliest word in existence. Nov 10, 2007
yarb That's worst of all! Nov 10, 2007
sionnach But what if it's a swank Hollywood eatery? Nov 10, 2007
yarb An eatery is usually, but not always, a godawful place. Nov 10, 2007