banquet
IPA: bˈæŋkwʌt
noun
- A large celebratory meal; a feast.
- A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
- (archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
verb
- (intransitive) To participate in a banquet; to feast.
- (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
- (transitive) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
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Examples of "banquet" in Sentences
- The awards banquet is on November 6th and the Esalen event takes place November 5-7.
- Who have lovingly preserved each and every recipe so as to reproduce faithfully a banquet from the nineteenth century?
- At about 1: 30 in the video, West explains that “When the banquet is not presented to us, we inevitably eat out of the dumpster.”
- They come together in another way as well: the Nebula Awards banquet is the last weekend in April, just a couple days before the release of the book.
- And I love that Phil going improv as MC at the real-estate banquet is a hit, and that Jay is the last to know he's playing "el jefe" at the wrong party.
- The first course in the banquet is a child's bleeding heart, and the other courses are equally gruesome; and they drink a toast to "the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war, the grand self-sacrifice that made us what we are."
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