as in nightclub
a bar or restaurant offering special nighttime entertainment (as music, dancing, or comedy acts)
a section of the city populated with casual bistros offering entertainment to suit nearly every taste
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Recent Examples of bistro
Downstairs, Gazette, the hotel’s Parisian-style bistro, serves up hearty French classics like brie baguettes and croque monsieur for breakfast.
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Zoey Goto, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2026
There are many great dining options available on-site, too, including Flannel seasonal bistro and The Roost, which serves elevated bar food.
—Kristine Thomason, Outside, 9 Mar. 2026
The street front space has been reinvented by Michael Lester and wife, Regina, as a romantic French bistro.
—Providence Journal, The Providence Journal, 7 Mar. 2026
The rise of the gig economy and remote work has finally broken the cubicle curse, giving us the freedom to answer emails from a mountain cabin or run a startup from a beachside bistro.
—Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
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Zoey Goto, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2026
There are many great dining options available on-site, too, including Flannel seasonal bistro and The Roost, which serves elevated bar food.
—Kristine Thomason, Outside, 9 Mar. 2026
The street front space has been reinvented by Michael Lester and wife, Regina, as a romantic French bistro.
—Providence Journal, The Providence Journal, 7 Mar. 2026
The rise of the gig economy and remote work has finally broken the cubicle curse, giving us the freedom to answer emails from a mountain cabin or run a startup from a beachside bistro.
—Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bistro
Noun
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Soon after, two men attempted to rape her while in a nightclub, leaving her deeply scarred, and as reports indicate, this led her to a care home for worsening psychiatric symptoms.—
Solly Boussidan,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Versace became the unofficial uniform at nightclubs—skin-tight minidresses for her, flashy silk shirts for him—and sales at the brand’s boutique in nearby Bal Harbour soared.—
Serena Turner,
Vanity Fair,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The weekly column about Wade’s life in the entertainment industry launched in Las Vegas Weekly in 2014 and has since evolved into a podcast and a live cabaret show.—
Joe Kottke,
NBC news,
30 Mar. 2026
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The 49,000 square-foot complex houses the 513-seat Baker-Baum Concert Hall, rehearsal rooms, offices, state-of-the-art recording facilities and The JAI, an intimate cabaret venue that serves food and drinks.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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But there was the more important distance — the one separating Liverpool’s summer signing (from the Swedish top-flight club Kristianstad DFF) from the high-ankle sprain in December suffered during a benign set-piece session.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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Badinter knew that debate-club arguments about deterrence and human-rights law and the possibility of judicial error would be ineffective.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Bistro.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bistro. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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