Canteen vs Restaurant - What's the difference?
canteen | restaurant |
a small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work
a temporary or mobile used in an emergency or on a film location etc
a box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc
a military mess kit
a water bottle used by a soldier or camper
An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
As nouns the difference between canteen and restaurant
is that canteen is a small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work while restaurant is an eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.canteen
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* canteen cultureExternal links
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(en noun)George Goodchild