banquet
a lavish meal; feast.
a ceremonious public dinner, especially one honoring a person, benefiting a charity, etc.
to entertain or regale with a banquet: They banqueted the visiting prime minister in grand style.
to have or attend a banquet; feast: They banqueted on pheasant, wild boar, and three kinds of fish.
Origin of banquet
1synonym study For banquet
Other words from banquet
- ban·quet·er, ban·que·teer [bang-kwi-teer], /ˌbæŋ kwɪˈtɪər/, noun
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How to use banquet in a sentence
Earlier this month, a wedding banquet in China’s southwestern Sichuan province featured 300 guests.
Chinese consumers are spending again—but they remain wary of restaurants | eamonbarrett | December 17, 2020 | FortuneYou can’t always eat what the animals eatIn the snow-covered landscape, a few stray berries may look like a banquet to a starving survivor.
A police department in Georgia, for example, once spent $227,000 on an armored personnel carrier, and a sheriff in New Mexico splashed out $4,600 for an awards banquet.
Police Say Seizing Property Without Trial Helps Keep Crime Down. A New Study Shows They’re Wrong. | Ian MacDougall for ProPublica | December 14, 2020 | ProPublicaHe was renowned as the organizer of the Big Ten party, an annual holiday bash he threw with nine other attorneys at Santia Hall, a banquet space in nearby Keego Harbor.
Increased state enforcement will also target banquet halls, nightclubs and other venues that host gatherings.
D.C. adds tougher coronavirus restrictions as infection rates continue to rise | Julie Zauzmer, Erin Cox | November 23, 2020 | Washington Post
The head banquet man at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City started serving the concoction as a menu staple in 1938.
The banquet was paid for with public funds, and taxpayers were understandably upset.
A table creaking under the weight of a Christmas banquet, a classic celebration of binge eating and drinking.
Another island tale purports that there was once a banquet arranged at the manor for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
A series of staircases winds under the lobby and opens onto a lavish banquet room, at once classical, futuristic, and whimsical.
My chief attended the banquet and I remained at home to hear the news when he returned.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowAfter the formal proclamation was issued the function terminated with a banquet given to 200 insurgent notabilities.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanBaltasar's profane banquet: his sentence is denounced by a handwriting on the wall, which Daniel reads and interprets.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousDuring the banquet the room was filled with people of fashion, who went to see the grandees eat and drink.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayThe fourth scene, to the extreme right of the vault, represents the funeral banquet in honor of Vibia.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow
British Dictionary definitions for banquet
/ (ˈbæŋkwɪt) /
a lavish and sumptuous meal; feast
a ceremonial meal for many people, often followed by speeches
(intr) to hold or take part in a banquet
(tr) to entertain or honour (a person) with a banquet
Origin of banquet
1Derived forms of banquet
- banqueter, noun
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