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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An elaborate, sumptuous repast.
  • noun A ceremonial dinner honoring a particular guest or occasion.
  • transitive & intransitive verb To honor at or partake of a banquet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A feast; a rich entertainment of food and drink.
  • noun A light entertainment at the end of a feast; a dessert; a refection at which wine is drunk.
  • noun A slight repast between meals: sometimes called running banquet.
  • noun In fortification, same as banquette, 1.
  • noun A small rod-shaped part of a horse's bridle coming under the eye.
  • To treat with a feast or rich entertainment.
  • To feast; regale one's self with good eating and drinking; fare daintily.
  • To take part in a light refection after a feast. See banquet, n., 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
  • noun A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
  • noun obsolete A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
  • intransitive verb To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To partake of a dessert after a feast.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A large celebratory meal; a feast.
  • verb To participate in a banquet; to feast.
  • verb obsolete To have dessert after a feast.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb provide a feast or banquet for
  • noun a ceremonial dinner party for many people
  • noun a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
  • verb partake in a feast or banquet

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English banket, from Old French, banquet, from Old Italian banchetto, from diminutive of banco, bench, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English benc, bench.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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 benc ("bench"). More at bank, bench.

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  • chained_bear commented on the word banquet

    "As pungent spices began to lose their allure and the Tudor palate woke up to the soft taste of butter, the tingle of citrus and a more pronounced use of nutmeg, the medieval voidée evolved into a final sweet course called, confusingly, the banquet: a profusion of sugary temptations that became one of the most characteristic markers of well-to-do Tudor England."

    --Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 102-103

    January 9, 2017