different between cabaret vs vaudeville

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæb??re?/
• Hyphenation: ca?ba?ret

Noun

cabaret (countable and uncountable, plural cabarets)

1. Live entertainment held in a restaurant or nightclub; the genre of music associated with this form of entertainment, especially in early 20th century Europe.
2. The nightclub or restaurant where such entertainment is held.
3. (Philippines) A strip club.

Related terms

• cabaretist

Translations

Further reading

• cabaret in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cabaret in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• cabaret at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• abacter, abreact, bear cat, bearcat, bractea, cat bear

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cabaret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?.ba??r?t/
• Hyphenation: ca?ba?ret

Noun

cabaret n (plural cabarets)

1. cabaret, type of live entertainment
2. comedy, live performance of jokes and satire

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From Middle French cabaret, from Middle Dutch cambret, from Old Northern French camberete and Old Picard camberet (“little room”), diminutive of cambre (“chamber”) (modern chambre), all from Latin camera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ba.??/

Noun

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

1. pub, tavern
2. cabaret (restaurant or nightclub with live entertainment)
3. (Quebec, Louisiana) tray (object on which things are carried)

   Synonym: plateau

Descendants

Further reading

• “cabaret” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Alternative forms

• cabarè (only in the regional meaning of “tray”)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French cabaret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ba?r?/
• Rhymes: -?
• Hyphenation: ca?ba?ret

Noun

cabaret m (invariable)

1. cabaret (nightclub)
2. (uncountable) cabaret (live entertainment)
3. (regional) tray, platter

   Synonym: vassoio

Derived terms

• cabarettista
• cabarettistico

Anagrams

• barcate, batrace, cabrate

References

• cabaret in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Noun

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

1. Alternative spelling of cabaré

Romanian

Etymology

From French cabaret.

Noun

cabaret n (plural cabarete)

1. cabaret

Declension

Spanish

Noun

cabaret m (plural cabarets)

1. Alternative form of cabaré

Further reading

• “cabaret” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vaudeville.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?v?d.v?l/, /?v?.d?.v?l/, /?vo?d.v?l/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v??.d?.v?l/

Noun

vaudeville (countable and uncountable, plural vaudevilles)

1. (historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
2. (historical, countable) An entertainment in this style.

Synonyms

• music hall (British)

Coordinate terms

• burlesque

Derived terms

• vaudevillian (noun/adjective)

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: bodabil

Translations

French

Etymology

Unclear. Possibly a corruption of voix de ville (“voice of the city”), or vallée de Vire (“valley of the (river) Vire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vod.vil/

Noun

vaudeville m (plural vaudevilles)

1. vaudeville
   • 1858, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, L'Héritage mystérieux

     À ses moments perdus, Fernand écrivait, avec ses camarades de bureau, un tiers ou un sixième de vaudeville .

Coordinate terms

• burlesque

Descendants