menu

/ˈmɛnju/

/ˈmɛnju/

Other forms: menus

A menu is a list of the food that's available to order. If your vegan friend doesn't see anything on the restaurant's menu he can eat, you may have to ask the chef to make him something special.

A menu is a list of what's available, whether you're talking about a menu at your neighborhood cafe or the menu, or agenda, of things to do at the state fair. When you talk about a menu on your computer, you're also talking about a list — in this case, a list of options or commands on the computer screen. Menu comes from the French phrase menu de repas, "list of what's served at a meal."

Definitions of menu

1. noun

   a list of dishes available at a restaurant
   “the menu was in French”

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

   types:

   a la carte

   a menu having individual dishes listed with separate prices

   prix fixe

   a menu listing fixed meals at fixed prices

   table d'hote

   a menu offering a complete meal with limited choices at a fixed price

   type of:

   bill

   a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
2. noun

   the dishes making up a meal
   type of:

   fare

   the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed
3. noun

   (computer science) a list of options available to a computer user
   synonyms: computer menu

   types:

   drop-down menu

   a menu of options that appears below the item when the computer user clicks on it

   cascading menu, hierarchical menu, submenu

   a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu

   type of:

   list, listing

   a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
4. noun

   an agenda of things to do
   “they worked rapidly down the menu of reports”

   synonyms: fare

   type of:

   agenda, docket, schedule

   a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to