cabaret

See also: Cabaret

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kæbəˈɹeɪ/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

Noun

cabaret (countable and uncountable, plural cabarets)

  1. Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.
  2. The nightclub or restaurant where such entertainment is held.
  3. (Philippines) A strip club.

Derived terms

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaː.baːˈrɛt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

Noun

cabaret n (plural cabarets)

  1. cabaret, type of live entertainment
  2. comedy, live performance of jokes and satire

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French cabaret, from Middle Dutch cambret, from Old Northern French camberete and Old Picard camberet (little room), diminutive of cambre (chamber) (modern chambre), all from Latin camera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ba.ʁɛ/
  • (file)

Noun

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

  1. pub, tavern
  2. cabaret (restaurant or nightclub with live entertainment)
  3. (Quebec, Louisiana) tray (object on which things are carried)
    Synonym: plateau
  4. (obsolete) asarabacca
    • 1869, Eugene Soubeiran, Traite de Pharmacie Theorique et Pratique, page 602:
      La racine du Cabaret [...] est vomitive, et, d’après le témoignage de Cullen, de Coste et Willemet, et de Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, elle peut remplacer l’ipecacuanha comme vomitif, à la dose de 1 à 2 grammes.
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    • 1896, Adolphe Marie Gubler, Commentaires Therapeutiques du Codex Medicamentarius, page 29:
      Le Cabaret est une plante indigène dont la racine, très active, renferme une huile volatile concrète , une huile grasse très âcre, un substance jaune nauséeuse, contenant peut-être son principe actif, et diverses autres substances peu importantes
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Derived terms

  • cabaret des oiseaux

Descendants

  • Dutch: cabaret
  • English: cabaret
  • German: Kabarett (see there for further descendants)
  • Italian: cabaret
  • Portuguese: cabaré, cabaret (unadapted form)
  • Spanish: cabaré

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Paronyms

Italian

Alternative forms

  • cabarè (only in the regional meaning of “tray”)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French cabaret. Compare Sicilian tabbarè.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.baˈrɛ/**, /ka.baˈre/**[1]
  • Rhymes: , -e
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

Noun

cabaret m (invariable)

  1. cabaret (nightclub)
  2. (uncountable) cabaret (live entertainment)
  3. (regional) tray, platter
    Synonym: vassoio

Derived terms

References

  1. cabaret in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • cabaret in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Portuguese

Noun

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

  1. Alternative spelling of cabaré

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Noun

cabaret n (plural cabarete)

  1. cabaret

Declension

Spanish

Noun

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

  1. Alternative form of cabaré

Further reading

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