bento

Meaning

1. (also, attributive) A Japanese takeaway lunch served in a box, often with the food arranged into an elaborate design.
2. Synonym of bento box (“a partitioned, traditionally lacquered, lunchbox in which a Japanese takeaway lunch is served”).
3. (Singapore, broadly) A generic meal packed in a disposable bento box.
4. A menu icon of nine squares in a grid.
5. A layout consisting of cards arranged in a modular, irregularly partitioned grid.

Synonyms

junket

Translations

pícnic

Picknick

Bentô

O-Bentô

Imbiss zum Mitnehmen

Lunchpaket

Verpflegungspaket

mitgebrachtes Essen

υπαίθριο πάρτι

pique-nique

panier repas

picnic

piquenique

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɛntoʊ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 弁(べん)当(とう) (bentō). Doublet of biandang.