Banquet Definition

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banquets

noun

banquets

An elaborate, sumptuous repast.

American Heritage

An elaborate meal; feast.

Webster's New World

A ceremonial dinner honoring a particular guest or occasion.

American Heritage

A formal dinner for many people, usually with toasts and speeches.

Webster's New World

A large celebratory meal; a feast.

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verb

banquets

To honor at or partake of a banquet.

American Heritage

To honor with a banquet.

Webster's New World

To dine at a banquet.

Webster's New World

To participate in a banquet; to feast.

Wiktionary

To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

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Other Word Forms of Banquet

Singular:

banquet

Plural:

Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”), from banco (“bench”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“bench”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benc (“bench”). More at bank, bench.

From Wiktionary
Middle English banket from Old French banquet from Old Italian banchetto from diminutive of banco bench of Germanic origin Old English benc bench

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition