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 third floor was the banqueting hall.
  • The celebratory victory banquet was canceled.
  • The banquet was followed by a ballet of nymphs and satyrs.
  • Greene organizes the ramshackle but fun annual ER banquet.
  • Rick Robins will be inducted during ceremonies at a banquet.
  • The emperor agrees and the betrothal is announced at a banquet.
  • The government was scared and overreacted and banned the banquet.
  • The living room is also the venue for the annual Holiday Banquet.
  • The culmination of the weekend is the Awards Banquet on Monday night.
  • At the coronation banquet, the local wines of the regions were served.
  • 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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