Definition of BANQUET

banquet

Plural: banquets

Noun

  • a ceremonial dinner party for many people
  • a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
    • "a banquet for the graduating seniors"
  • A large celebratory meal; a feast.
  • A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
  • A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.

Verb

Verb Forms: banqueted, banqueting, banquets

  • To feast lavishly or entertain with a grand meal.
  • provide a feast or banquet for
  • partake in a feast or banquet
  • To participate in a banquet; to feast.
  • To have dessert after a feast.
  • To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

Examples

  • We’ll banquet tonight if I can just place this Q on the triple-word score.

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

Scrabble Score: 18

banquet: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
banquet: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
banquet: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 21

banquet: valid Words With Friends Word