Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A complete meal of several courses, sometimes with choices permitted, offered by a restaurant at a fixed price.
  • noun A fixed price charged for such a meal.

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  • noun A menu in which the entire meal is offered at a single fixed price
  • noun The price of such a meal

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a menu listing fixed meals at fixed prices
  • adjective (of a restaurant meal) complete but with limited choices and at a fixed price

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French : prix, price + fixe, fixed.]

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Borrowing from French prix fixé, literally "fixed price".

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