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menu

name · noun · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɛn.juː/
  • Canada, General-American: /ˈmɛn.ju/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /ˈmɛn.ɪu̯/ Wales, Ottawa Valley
  • rhymes with -ɛnjuː
  • CMU ARPABET: M EH1 N Y UW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname from French.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • After the wedding celebration was over the menu was displayed for dinner.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The server handed us the menu.
  • We selected duck pâté and chicken goujons from the menu.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The food or drinks that are available in a restaurant, café, or bar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • They took the chicken sandwich off their menu.
  • We've added a few new dishes to our menu.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user interface.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, games, gaming, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A list or agenda.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • What's on the menu for today's meeting?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To include (something) in a menu.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

an agenda of things to do

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they worked rapidly down the menu of reports

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fare

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: agenda, docket, schedule

9

noun

Meaning 9

a list of dishes available at a restaurant

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the menu was in French

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bill of fare, card, carte du jour, carte

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: bill

Narrower terms: a la carte, prix fixe, table d'hote

10

noun

Meaning 10

(computer science) a list of options available to a computer user

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: computer menu

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: list, listing

Narrower terms: drop-down menu, hierarchical menu, cascading menu, submenu

11

noun

Meaning 11

the dishes making up a meal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fare

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French Menu.

Borrowed from French menu. Doublet of menudo and minute.

Across languages

Translations

241 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: spyskaart — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Albanian: meny — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Arabic: قَائِمَة (qāʔima) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Arabic: قَائِمَةُ الطَّعَام (qāʔimatu ṭ-ṭaʕām) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Arabic: منيو (ményu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Arabic: منيو (mínyu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Arabic: منيو (ményu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܘܼܚܝܼܬܵܐ (lūḥītā) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܸܕܪܵܐ ܕܡܹܐܟ݂ܠܵܬܹ̈ܐ (sidrā d-mēḵlātē) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܹܢܘܼ (mēnū) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Armenian: ճաշացուցակ (čašacʻucʻak) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Armenian: մենյու (menyu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Armenian: ճաշացանկ (čašacʻank) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Azerbaijani: menyu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Belarusian: меню́ (mjenjú) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Bengali: মেনু (menu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Bulgarian: меню́ (menjú) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Burmese: မီနူး (minu:) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Catalan: menú — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Chinese Cantonese: 菜單 /菜单 (coi3 daan1) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Chinese Cantonese: 餐牌 — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Chinese Mandarin: 菜單 /菜单 (càidān) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Czech: jídelní lístek — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Danish: spisekort — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Danish: menu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Dutch: menu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Estonian: menüü — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Finnish: menukortti — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Finnish: menu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Finnish: ruokalista — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • French: carte — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • French: menu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Galician: menú — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Georgian: მენიუ (meniu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • German: Menü — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Greek: εδεσματολόγιο (edesmatológio) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Greek: κατάλογος (katálogos) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Ancient Greek: γραμματείδιον (grammateídion) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Hebrew: תַּפְרִיט (tafrít) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Hindi: मेनू (menū) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Hungarian: menü — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Hungarian: étlap — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Irish: biachlár — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Italian: carta — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Japanese: メニュー (menyū) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Japanese: お品書き (oshinagaki) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Kazakh: мәзір (mäzır) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Khmer: ម៉ឺនុយ (məɨnuy) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Khmer: បញ្ជីមុខម្ហូប (bɑɑbɑñcii muk mhoup) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Khmer: អាហារប័ណ្ណ (ʼaahaaraʼban) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Korean: 메뉴 (menyu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Korean: 메뉴판 (menyupan) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Kyrgyz: меню (menyu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Kyrgyz: аштизме (aştizme) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Lao: ເມນູ (mē nū) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Latvian: ēdienkarte — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Lithuanian: meniu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Macedonian: мени́ (mení) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Mongolian: хоолны нэрс (xoolny ners) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: meny — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Norwegian Bokmål: speisekart — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Iranian Persian: مِنو (menu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Iranian Persian: فهرستخوراک(fehrest-e xorâk — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Polish: menu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Portuguese: cardápio — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Portuguese: menu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Romanian: meniu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Russian: меню́ (menjú) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Scottish Gaelic: cairt-bidhe — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Scottish Gaelic: clàr-bìdhe — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Serbo-Croatian: мѐнӣ — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Serbo-Croatian: јело̀внӣк — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Serbo-Croatian: mènī — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Serbo-Croatian: jelòvnīk — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Slovak: jedálny lístok — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Slovene: meni — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Slovene: jedilnik — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Spanish: menú — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Spanish: carta — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Swedish: meny — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Tagalog: talaulaman — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Tajik: меню (menyu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Tibetan: ཁ་ལག་ཐོ (kha lag tho) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Turkish: menü — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Turkish: mönü — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Turkmen: menýu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Ukrainian: меню́ (menjú) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Urdu: مینُو (menū) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Uyghur: تىزىملىك (tizimlik) — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Uzbek: menyu — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Uzbek: taomnoma — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Vietnamese: thực đơn — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Welsh: bwydlen — details of the food to be served at a banquet
  • Afrikaans: menu — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Arabic: قَائِمَة (qāʔima) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Arabic: قَائِمَةُ طَعَام (qāʔimatu ṭaʕām) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Arabic: منيو (ményu) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Arabic: منيو (mínyu) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Arabic: منيو (ményu) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܘܼܚܝܼܬܵܐ (lūḥītā) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܸܕܪܵܐ ܕܡܹܐܟ݂ܠܵܬܹ̈ܐ (sidrā d-mēḵlātē) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܹܢܘܼ (mēnū) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Armenian: ճաշացուցակ (čašacʻucʻak) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Armenian: մենյու (menyu) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Armenian: ճաշացանկ (čašacʻank) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Azerbaijani: menyu — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Belarusian: меню́ (mjenjú) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Bulgarian: меню́ (menjú) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Burmese: မီနူး (minu:) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Catalan: carta — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Chinese Cantonese: 餐牌 — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Chinese Mandarin: 菜單 /菜单 (càidān) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Chinese Mandarin: 餐牌 (cānpái) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Chinese Mandarin: 菜譜 /菜谱 (càipǔ) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Czech: jídelní lístek — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Danish: menu — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Dutch: menukaart — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Estonian: menüü — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Finnish: ruokalista — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • French: carte — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • French: menu — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Galician: menú — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Georgian: მენიუ (meniu) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • German: Speisekarte — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Greek: μενού (menoú) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Greek: κατάλογος (katálogos) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Greek: εδεσματολόγιο (edesmatológio) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Greenlandic: nerisassat allattorfiat — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Hindi: मेनू (menū) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Hungarian: menü — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Hungarian: étlap — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Hungarian: ételkínálat — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Icelandic: matseðill — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Irish: biachlár — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Italian: menù — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Japanese: メニュー (menyū) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Japanese: お品書き (oshinagaki) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Japanese: 献立 (kondate) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Korean: 메뉴 (menyu) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Korean: 메뉴판 (menyupan) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Korean: 차림표 (charimpyo) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Korean: 식단표 (sikdanpyo) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Kyrgyz: аштизме (aştizme) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Lao: ລາຍການອາຫານ (lāi kā n hān) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Latvian: ēdienkarte — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Lithuanian: meniu — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Macedonian: мени́ (mení) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Māori: rārangi kai — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Norwegian Bokmål: meny — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Iranian Persian: مِنو (menu) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Iranian Persian: صورَتغَذا (surat-ġazâ) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Polish: menu — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Polish: spis dań — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Polish: jadłospis — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Portuguese: cardápio — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Portuguese: menu — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Portuguese: ementa — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Romanian: meniu — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Russian: меню́ (menjú) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Scottish Gaelic: cairt-bidhe — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Serbo-Croatian: мѐнӣ — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Serbo-Croatian: јело̀внӣк — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Serbo-Croatian: mènī — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Serbo-Croatian: jelòvnīk — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Slovak: jedálny lístok — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Slovene: jedilni list — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Slovene: jedilnik — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Spanish: menú — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Spanish: carta — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Swedish: meny — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Swedish: matsedel — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Tagalog: putahe — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Thai: รายการอาหาร (raai-gaan aa-hǎan) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Turkish: menü — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Turkish: mönü — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Turkish: yemek listesi — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Ukrainian: меню́ (menjú) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Urdu: مینُو (menū) — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Uzbek: taomnoma — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Uzbek: menyu — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Vietnamese: thực đơn — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Vietnamese: bảng kê món ăn — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Welsh: bwydlen — list of dishes offered in a restaurant
  • Arabic: قَائِمَة (qāʔima) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܸܕܪܵܐ (sidrā) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܘܼܚܝܼܬܵܐ (lūḥītā) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Bulgarian: меню́ (menjú) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Catalan: menú — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Chinese Mandarin: 選單 /选单 (xuǎndān) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Chinese Mandarin: 菜單 /菜单 (càidān) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Chinese Mandarin: 項目單 /项目单 (xiàngmùdān) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Chinese Mandarin: 項目表 /项目表 (xiàngmùbiǎo) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Chinese Mandarin: 選項單 /选项单 (xuǎnxiàngdān) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Czech: nabídka — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Czech: menu — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Danish: menu — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Dutch: menu — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Finnish: valikko — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • French: menu — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Galician: menú — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • German: Menü — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Greek: μενού (menoú) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Greek: κατάλογος (katálogos) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Greenlandic: periarfissat — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Greenlandic: toqqagassat — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Hungarian: menü — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Icelandic: valmynd — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Irish: roghchlár — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Japanese: メニュー (menyū) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Kazakh: мәзір (mäzır) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Korean: 메뉴 (menyu) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Latvian: izvēlne — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Macedonian: мени́ (mení) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Māori: rārangi tono — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Norwegian Bokmål: meny — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Iranian Persian: مِنو (menu) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Iranian Persian: فِهْرِسْت (fehrest) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Polish: menu — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Polish: pasek menu — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Portuguese: menu — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Romanian: meniu — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Russian: меню́ (menjú) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Scottish Gaelic: clàr-iùil — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Serbo-Croatian: мѐнӣ — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Serbo-Croatian: ѝзбо̄рнӣк — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Serbo-Croatian: mènī — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Serbo-Croatian: ìzbōrnīk — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Spanish: menú — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Swedish: meny — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Thai: เมนู (mee-nuu) — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Turkish: menü — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Vietnamese: trình đơn — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Vietnamese: danh mục — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Vietnamese: bảng chọn — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Welsh: dewislen — computing: list from which the user may select an operation to be performed
  • Finnish: lista — list or agenda
  • Finnish: asialista — list or agenda
  • Finnish: esityslista — list or agenda
  • Polish: lista — list or agenda