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Webster 1913 Edition

Banquet

Ban′quet

,
Noun.
[F., a feast, prop. a dim. of
banc
bench; cf. It.
banchetto
, dim. of
banco
a bench, counter. See
Bank
a bench, and cf.
Banquette
.]
1.
A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
2.
A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
[Obs.]
We’ll dine in the great room, but let the music
And
banquet
be prepared here.
Massinger.

Ban′quet

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Banqueted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Banqueting
.]
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
Just in time to
banquet

The illustrious company assembled there.
Coleridge.

Ban′quet

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
Were it a draught for Juno when she
banquets
,
I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
Milton.
2.
To partake of a dessert after a feast.
[Obs.]
Where they did both sup and
banquet
.
Cavendish.

Webster 1828 Edition

Banquet

BAN'QUET

,
Noun.
A feast; a rich entertainment of meat and drink. Esther v. Job xli. Amos vi.

Definition 2024

banquet

banquet

English

State Banquet.--Serving the Peacock.--Facsimile of a woodcut in an edition of Virgil, folio, published at Lyons in 1517.
A Chinese painting of an outdoor banquet, from the era of the Song Dynasty (960-1279).

Noun

banquet ‎(plural banquets)

  1. A large celebratory meal; a feast.
  2. (archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
    • Massinger
      We'll dine in the great room, but let the music / And banquet be prepared here.

Translations

Verb

banquet ‎(third-person singular simple present banquets, present participle banqueting or banquetting, simple past and past participle banqueted or banquetted)

  1. To participate in a banquet; to feast.
    • Milton
      Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
  2. (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
    • Cavendish
      Where they did both sup and banquet.
  3. To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
    • Coleridge
      Just in time to banquet / The illustrious company assembled there.

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”), from Lombardic bank ‎(“bench”) / Lombardic 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 Proto-Germanic source.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑ̃.kɛ/

Noun

banquet m ‎(plural banquets)

  1. banquet

Etymology

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 benc ‎(“bench”). More at bank, bench.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbæŋkwɪt/

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