Banquet
['bæŋkwɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; 'a banquet for the graduating seniors'; 'the Thanksgiving feast'; 'they put out quite a spread'.
(noun.) a ceremonial dinner party for many people.
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Definition
(n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
(n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
(v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
(v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
(v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Feast, entertainment, treat.
v. n. Feast, be regaled with good eating and drinking.
v. a. Treat with a banquet or feast.
Checker: Vernon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Feast, festivity, treat, entertainment, festival, carousal, carouse,regalement, cheer
ANT:Fast, abstinence, starvation
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Definition
n. a feast: any rich treat or entertainment: a course of sweetmeats fruit and wine separately or after the principal meal—still used in the Scotch phrase 'a cake and wine banquet.'—v.t. to give a feast to.—v.i. to fare sumptuously.—ns. Banq′ueter Banq′ueteer; Banq′ueting; Banq′ueting-house.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
It is good to dream of a banquet. Friends will wait to do you favors. To dream of yourself, together with many gaily-attired guests, eating from costly plate and drinking wine of fabulous price and age, foretells enormous gain in enterprises of every nature, and happiness among friends. To see inharmonious influences, strange and grotesque faces or empty tables, is ominous of grave misunderstandings or disappointments.
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Examples
- He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Is appealed to, at the fish stage of the banquet, by Veneering, on the disputed question whether his cousin Lord Snigsworth is in or out of town? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Au banquet de la vie à peine commencé, Un instant seulement mes lèvres ont pressé La coupe en mes mains encore pleine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We therefore decline with thanks your Highness's courteous invitation to the banquet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Mr Sampson flew to the excellent lady's back, and followed her up close chair in hand, as she stalked to the banquet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The hearing of all this, and a good deal more, outlasted the banquet some time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The farewell banquet was of a gorgeous nature, and wound up his visit in a most brilliant manner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She was the best-looking woman in the room; she made the dinner a little less funereal than the usual van der Luyden banquet. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The banquet was crowned with the richest wines, both foreign and domestic. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And now he himself who uttered the strain, he who was present at the banquet, and who said this--he it is who has slain my son. Plato. The Republic.
- Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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