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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cab•a•ret /ˌkæbəˈreɪ/USA pronunciation n. - [countable] a restaurant providing food, drink, and often a floor show.
- Show Business[uncountable] the entertainment at a cabaret.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cab•a•ret (kab′ə rā′ for 1–4, 6, 7; kab′ə ret′ for 5),USA pronunciation n., v., -reted (-rād′),USA pronunciation -ret•ing (-rā′ing).USA pronunciation n. - a restaurant providing food, drink, music, a dance floor, and often a floor show.
- a café that serves food and drink and offers entertainment often of an improvisatory, satirical, and topical nature.
- Show Businessa floor show consisting of such entertainment:The cover charge includes dinner and a cabaret.
- Show Businessa form of theatrical entertainment, consisting mainly of political satire in the form of skits, songs, and improvisations:an actress whose credits include cabaret, TV, and dinner theater.
- Ceramics, Furniturea decoratively painted porcelain coffee or tea service with tray, produced esp. in the 18th century.
- [Archaic.]a shop selling wines and liquors.
v.i. - to attend or frequent cabarets.
- Picard camberete small room (cognate with French chambrette; see chamber, -ette)
- Middle Dutch, denasalized variant of cambret, cameret
- French: tap-room, Middle French dialect, dialectal (Picard or Walloon)
- 1625–35
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged nightclub, supper club, club.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cabaret /ˈkæbəˌreɪ/ n - a floor show of dancing, singing, or other light entertainment at a nightclub or restaurant
- chiefly US a nightclub or restaurant providing such entertainment
Etymology: 17th Century: from Norman French: tavern, probably from Late Latin camera an arched roof, chamber |