Banquet

English

Noun

Banquet (plural Banquets)

1. A large celebratory meal; a feast.

Verb

Banquet (third-person singular simple present banquets, present participle banqueting, simple past and past participle banqueted)

1. To participate in a banquet.

Adjectives for Banquet

unpretentious; sumptuous; diplomatic; delicious; fantastical; open-air; luxurious; artistic; unending; exotic; artificial; voluptuous; good-will; Lucullan; elaborate; stately; philanthropic.

Thesaurus

bean-feast, beano, blow, blowout, carnival, carouse, celebration, do, do justice to, eat heartily, eat up, fair, feast, feed, festal board, festival, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, gala, gala affair, gala day, gaudy, great doings, groaning board, harvest home, high jinks, indulge, jamboree, joyance, jubilation, kermis, mad round, merrymaking, party, picnic, polish the platter, put it away, regale, regalement, repast, revel, revelment, revelry, round of pleasures, spread, treat, tuck, waygoose, wayzgoose, wine and dine

Etymology

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”), of Germanic origin, 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.

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Translations

Noun

a large celebratory meal; a feast

Albanian: banket (sq) Armenian: խնջույք (hy) (xnǰuyk’), քեֆ (hy) (k’ef) Basque: oturuntza (eu) Bulgarian: банкет (bg), пир (bg) Danish: middag (da), banket (da) Dutch: banket (nl) n., feestmaal (nl) n., feestdis (nl) m. Esperanto: bankedo (eo) Finnish: juhla-ateria (fi), banketti (fi), kestit (fi) French: banquet (fr) m., festin (fr) m. German: Festmahl (de) n., Bankett (de) n. Greek: ευωχία (el) (evochía) f. Hungarian: bankett (hu), díszebéd (hu), díszvacsora (hu), lakoma (hu)

Icelandic: matarveisla (is) f., stórveisla (is) f., fjöldaveisla (is) f. Irish: fleá (ga) f. Italian: pranzo festivo (it) m., banchetto (it) m. Maltese: ikla  (mt) f. Manx: cuirrey (gv), fleah (gv) Polish: bankiet (pl) m. Portuguese: banquete (pt) Russian: пирушка (ru) f., празднество (ru) n., празднование (ru) n. Scottish Gaelic: bangaid (gd) f., cuirm (gd) f., fèisd (gd) f., fleadh (gd) m. Spanish: comida festiva (es) f.

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French

Etymology

Middle French banquet from Italian banchetto (“light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench”, literally “a small bench”) from banco (“bench”), of Germanic origin, from Lombardic *bank, panch (“bench”) from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old High German bank, banch (“bench”), Old English benc (“bench”). Compare Old French banquet, which only meant "small bench", from the same Germanic source.

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• IPA: /bɑ̃.kɛ/, SAMPA: /bA~.kE/

Noun

Banquet m. (plural Banquets)

1. banquet