banquet room

American  

noun

1. a spacious dining room for accommodating banquets, as in a hotel.

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Etymology

Origin of banquet room

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

As Chloe Lamford’s brilliant two-level set rotates, we—and the characters—travel from the banquet room to the classroom, through intermediate spaces like a bathroom, a kitchen and a supply closet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The club is new and the dressing room feels more humane than most, like a hotel banquet room.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

This past November, in a large, carpeted banquet room on the University of Wisconsin’s River Falls campus, hundreds of undergraduate, graduate and veterinary students silently considered the lived experience of a Sonoran desert tortoise.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024

Al Capone used to hold court in a banquet room that looks straight out of Bavaria with original cypress beams and sconces.

From Washington Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Calder glanced toward the banquet room and library.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett