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Definition: A La Carte |
A La CarteAdjective1. (of a restaurant meal) having unlimited choices with a separate price for each item. Adverb1. By ordering items listed individually on a menu; "we ate a la carte". Noun1. A menu having individual dishes listed with separate prices. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonyms: prix fixe (adj), table d'hote (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: A La Carte |
| Non-English Usage: "A La Carte" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (a la carte). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Airlift a la Carte (1971) Revue a la Carte (1935) Divorce a la Carte (1931) Marriage a la Carte (1916) Flirtation a la Carte (1916) | |
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![]() | Herman Odessey On the right eating breakfast a la carte. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | The Christmas post office "A la carte" has made its appearance on national capitol streets. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The compliments of the season a la carte. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Language | Translations for "a la carte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | étlap szerint. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アモルファス半導" (alarm, alert, alignment, Allah, alliance, amorphous semiconductor, around, Ayatollah). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アラカルト . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aay alay artecay.(various references) | |
Russian | порционный. (various references) | |
Swedish | a la carte, la carte. (various references) | |
Turkish | alâkart, menüden seçerek. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | theo món, gọi theo món, đặt theo món. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-l-r-t" | |
-2 letters: acetal, carate, cartel, claret, rectal. | |
-3 letters: aceta, alate, alert, altar, alter, areal, areca, artal, artel, carat, caret, carle, carte, cater, clear, cleat, craal, crate, eclat, lacer, later, ratal, ratel, react, reata, recta, talar, taler, trace. | |
-4 letters: acre, acta, alae, alar, alec, area, care, carl, cart, cate, celt, earl, lace, late, lear, race, rale. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-e-l-r-t" | |
+2 letters: abacterial, acetabular, metacarpal. | |
+3 letters: cardinalate, metacarpals, sacramental. | |
+4 letters: abstractable, aeronautical, cardinalates, extracranial, galactorrhea, sacramentals, tabernacular. | |
+5 letters: antibacterial, ascertainable, baccalaureate, charlatanries, contralateral, cyanoacrylate, extragalactic, extravascular, galactorrheas, metacercarial, rarefactional, sacramentally. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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