Banquet Definition
băngkwĭt
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
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
- snack
- light meal
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.
Wiktionary
Origin of Banquet
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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
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