According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
RECOMMEND
recommend
(verb) make attractive or acceptable; “Honesty recommends any person”
recommend, urge, advocate
(verb) push for something; “The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day”
commend, recommend
(verb) express a good opinion of
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
recommend (third-person singular simple present recommends, present participle recommending, simple past and past participle recommended)
(transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
(transitive) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
(transitive) To advise, propose, counsel favorably
(transitive, archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
Usage notes
• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See English catenative verbs
Synonyms
• See also advise
Antonyms
• deprectate
• disrecommend
• discourage
• disapprove
• oppose
Anagrams
• commender
Source: Wiktionary
Rec`om*mend" (rk`m*mnd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recommended; p. pr. & vb. n. Recommending.] Etym: [Pref. re- + commend: cf. F. recommander.]
1. To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made him precious to posterity. Dryden.
2. To make acceptable; to attract favor to. A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and e'en a stranger recommends. Pope.
3. To commit; to give in charge; to commend. Paul chose Silas and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. Acts xv. 40 .
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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