banquet

Meaning

Noun

1. A large celebratory meal; a feast.
2. A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
3. A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.

Verb

1. To participate in a banquet; to feast.
2. (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
3. To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

Synonyms

feast

party

🥳

dinner

junket

dinner party

drinking

treat

drinking bout

celebrate with feasting

social gathering

entertainment

celebration

feasting

meal

festival

formal dinner

festivity

gala

goodies

carouse

revel

banqueting

spread

have a Chinese dinner

welcoming party

give a party

attend

beanfeast

carnival

carousal

dinner table

entertain

feed

holiday

large meal

mealtime

regale

revelry

snack

symposium

table

treating

wassail

drinking party

affair

wine and dine

invitation to a party

give a banquet

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈ bæŋkwɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: banket

Cognate with Old High German: bank

Cognate with Old English: benċ

In summary

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.