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Banquet

//ˈbæŋkwɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A large celebratory meal; a feast.

    "True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed; / It is a banquet to me."

  2. 2
    a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed wordnet
  3. 3
    A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
  4. 4
    a ceremonial dinner party for many people wordnet
  5. 5
    A dessert; a course of sweetmeats. archaic

    "Wee'll dine in the great roome, but let the muſick / And banquet be prepar'd here."

Verb
  1. 1
    To participate in a banquet; to feast. intransitive

    "I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast: / The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: / Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits."

  2. 2
    partake in a feast or banquet wordnet
  3. 3
    To have dessert after a feast. obsolete

    "1580, George Cavendish, quoted by John Stow (ed.), The Annales of England, Faithfully collected out of the most autenticall Authors, Records, and other Monuments of Antiquitie, 1600 edition, “Henry the eight.,” p. 907, Then was the banquetting chamber in the tilt yard at Greenewich, to the which place these strangers were conducted by the noblest personages in the court, where they did both sup and banquet."

  4. 4
    provide a feast or banquet for wordnet
  5. 5
    To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. transitive

    "Not possible; for who shall bear your part / And be in Padua here Vincentio's son; / Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends, / Visit his countrymen, and banquet them?"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From 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 benċ (“bench”). More at bank, bench. The unetymological /w/ resulted from spelling-pronunciation.

Etymology 2

From 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 benċ (“bench”). More at bank, bench. The unetymological /w/ resulted from spelling-pronunciation.

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