cabaret

noun

cab·​a·​ret ˌka-bə-ˈrā 

ˈka-bə-ˌrā

1

archaic : a shop selling wines and liquors

2

a

: a restaurant serving liquor and providing entertainment (as by singers or dancers) : nightclub

b

: the show provided at a cabaret

Synonyms

• bistro
• boîte
• café
• cafe
• club
• nightclub
• nightspot
• nitery
• niterie
• roadhouse
• supper club

Examples of cabaret in a Sentence

a singing superstar who got her start singing in the cabarets of New York City

Recent Examples on the Web

Catch a Moulin Rouge show The capital of cabaret, and one of the most iconic spectacles in Paris, is the Moulin Rouge in Pigalle, whose symbolic red windmill sits below the hilltop village of Montmartre. —Lane Nieset, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024

While her husband deals with the presidency and unrelenting desires, Mary has two driving goals: alcohol and becoming a cabaret star. —Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2024

The entrance—just off of 13th Street and Ninth Avenue—is moody, red, and lacquered, like the backstage of a cabaret during the Gilded Age or a hidden room within the walls of Versailles. —Elise Taylor, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2024

Luann went from being concerned with how she was addressed to sleeping with a hot pirate, to marrying someone everyone else had dated, to getting arrested, to becoming a cabaret star. —Brian Moylan, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024

Word History

Etymology

French, from Middle French dialect (Picard or Walloon), from Middle Dutch, alteration of cambret, cameret, from Middle French dialect (Picard) camberete small room, ultimately from Late Latin camera — more at chamber

First Known Use

1655, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

cabaret

noun

cab·​a·​ret ˌkab-ə-ˈrā 

ˈkab-ə-ˌrā

: nightclub