BILL OF FARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bill of fare mean? 

• BILL OF FARE (noun)
  The noun BILL OF FARE has 1 sense:

1. a list of dishes available at a restaurant

  Familiarity information: BILL OF FARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILL OF FARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A list of dishes available at a restaurant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bill of fare; card; carte; carte du jour; menu

Context example:

the menu was in French

Hypernyms ("bill of fare" is a kind of...):

bill (a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bill of fare"):

a la carte (a menu having individual dishes listed with separate prices)

prix fixe (a menu listing fixed meals at fixed prices)

table d'hote (a menu offering a complete meal with limited choices at a fixed price)

 Context examples 

We none of us want to hear the bill of fare.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The serene Teuton found the supper-table and was happy, eating steadily through the bill of fare, and dismayed the garcons by the ravages he committed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So, on this great journey into the East, straight meat was the bill of fare, ammunition and tools principally made up the load on the sled, and the time-card was drawn upon the limitless future.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)