Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

teishoku-ya

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
teishoku-ya
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of Japanese restaurant, similar to an American diner, that serves cheap, commonplace foods.

Etymology

From Japanese 定食屋 (teishokuya), from 定食 (teishoku, “set menu”) and 屋 (ya, “store”).

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Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

teishokuya (alternative)

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Questions

What does teishoku-ya mean?
A type of Japanese restaurant, similar to an American diner, that serves cheap, commonplace foods.
Where does teishoku-ya come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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