Menu
name, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
"After the wedding celebration was over the menu was displayed for dinner."
- 2 an agenda of things to do wordnet
- 3 A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital.
"The server handed us the menu."
- 4 a list of dishes available at a restaurant wordnet
- 5 The food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar.
"They took the chicken sandwich off their menu."
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- 6 (computer science) a list of options available to a computer user wordnet
- 7 A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface.
- 8 the dishes making up a meal wordnet
- 9 A list or agenda.
"What's on the menu for today's meeting?"
- 1 To include (something) in a menu. rare, transitive
"He created this prize-winning dish last December, to serve at a catered dinner that honored benefactors of Nashua Memorial Hospital. At that elaborate holiday repast, Quimby menued the seafood dish as a first course. However, he noted, his dish is substantial enough to serve as a satisfying entree."
- 1 A surname from French.
Example
More examples"Can I have the menu again, please?"
Etymology
Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.
Borrowed from French Menu.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.