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buffet
1[ buh-fey, boo-adjective boo-fey; British buhf-it ]
noun
- a variety of dishes presented in a line, from which diners in a restaurant serve themselves, usually at a fixed price regardless of how much one eats:
The lavish all-you-can-eat buffet delivered a feast of salads, curries, pasta dishes, and sumptuous desserts for $40.
- a restaurant where food is presented in this way:
They own one of the best high-end buffets in the country.
- a meal laid out on one or more tables so that guests may serve themselves.
- a sideboard or cabinet for holding china, table linen, etc.
- a wide variety of things to choose from:
The school’s internet safety workshop contains a buffet of ideas for parents in the 21st century.
- a counter, bar, or the like, for lunch or refreshments.
- a restaurant containing such a counter or bar.
adjective
- consisting of food, refreshments, etc., laid out on tables or buffets from which guests or customers serve themselves: buffet service.
a buffet supper;
buffet service.
buffet
2[ buhf-it ]
noun
- a blow, as with the hand or fist.
- a violent shock or concussion.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- to struggle with blows of hand or fist.
- to force one's way by a fight, struggle, etc.
buffet
1/ ˈbʌfɪt /
verb
- tr to knock against or about; batter
the wind buffeted the boat
- tr to hit, esp with the fist; cuff
- to force (one's way), as through a crowd
- intr to struggle; battle
noun
- a blow, esp with a fist or hand
- aerodynamic excitation of an aircraft structure by separated flows
Buffet
2/ byfɛ /
noun
- BuffetBernard19281999MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: engraver Bernard (bɛrnar). 1928–99, French painter and engraver. His works are characterized by sombre tones and thin angular forms
buffet
3noun
- ˈbʊfeɪ a counter where light refreshments are served
- ˈbʊfeɪ
- a meal at which guests help themselves from a number of dishes and often eat standing up
- ( as modifier )
a buffet lunch
- ˈbʌfɪtˈbʊfeɪ a piece of furniture used from medieval times to the 18th century for displaying plates, etc and typically comprising one or more cupboards and some open shelves
- dialect.ˈbʌfɪ a kind of low stool, pouffe, or hassock
Derived Forms
- ˈbuffeter, noun
Other Words From
- buffet·er noun
- un·buffet·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of buffet1
Word History and Origins
Origin of buffet1
Origin of buffet2
Example Sentences
When we think of buffets, we tend to think of their 1980s and early ’90s heyday, when commercial jingles for Sizzler might have been confused with our national anthem.
A great gift for the hostess in your life, this wine rack also serves as a buffet style server, with a table top, storage shelves, space for 20 vertical bottles of wine, and hanging storage for wine glasses.
Faced with an all-you-can-eat buffet, that’s exactly what a plant’s green body sets out to do.
This often means reducing capacities to earlier limits, or closing down a restaurant’s seated bar or buffet station.
The antiquated system of waiting two weeks to be paid, sometimes with a paper check, now seems as outdated as office buffet lunches.
There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.
Nutritionist and trainers escorted players assigned to lose or gain weight to the buffet line and sat with them.
La Teresita also has an adjoining cafeteria where you can head for an informal buffet and heaping piles of Cuban delicacies.
I remember going to a rehearsal dinner that had lobster tail on the buffet and thinking that was decadent.
Such is the buffet of delights served on an Oprah Winfrey press tour.
Immediately Messa went up the stairs, and safely reached a large room where two candles were burning on a buffet.
It was there also that she ate, keeping her belongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred years of use.
Buffetted, by the opposite party, out of one place, and now waiting till they come to buffet us out of another.
A great “feed” will take place in the grand hall; the buffet will serve as usual individual suppers and baskets for two persons.
Behind the group a white-faced young woman, of perhaps twenty, stood clutching at a buffet for support.
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