cabaret

Borrowed from French cabaret.

• IPA^(key): /kæbəˈɹeɪ/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

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.

• cabaretist
• cabaretistic
• dark cabaret

• “cabaret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cabaret”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “cabaret”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• abacter, abreact, bear cat, bearcat, bractea, cat bear

Borrowed from French cabaret.

• IPA^(key): /kaː.baːˈrɛt/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ret

cabaret n (plural cabarets, no diminutive)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ka.ba.ʁɛ/

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cabaret m (plural cabarets)

1. pub, tavern
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     De temps à autre, le cocher sur son siège jetait aux cabarets des regards désespérés.

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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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• cabaret des oiseaux

• “cabaret” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
• “cabaret” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “cabaret” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “cabaret”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “cabaret”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “cabaret” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “cabaret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• Gabarret

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

Unadapted borrowing from French cabaret. Compare Sicilian tabbarè.

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

cabaret m (invariable)

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

   Synonym: vassoio

• cabarettista
• cabarettistico

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

• barcate, batrace, cabrate

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

1. alternative spelling of cabaré

• “cabaret”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French cabaret.

cabaret n (plural cabarete)

1. cabaret

• IPA^(key): /kabaˈɾet/ [ka.β̞aˈɾet̪]
  • Rhymes: -et
• IPA^(key): /kabaˈɾe/ [ka.β̞aˈɾe]
  • Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ca‧ba‧ret

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

1. alternative form of cabaré

• “cabaret”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025