junket

Meaning

Verb

1. (dated, intransitive) To attend a junket; to feast.
2. (intransitive) To go on a junket; to travel.
3. (transitive) To regale or entertain with a feast.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A basket.
2. A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
3. (obsolete) A delicacy.
4. A feast or banquet.
5. A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of press junket.
7. A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.

Synonyms

feast

banquet

carousal

outing

excursion

jaunt

junketing

revel

pleasure trip

sashay

expedition

spree

picnic

revelry

entertain

junketeer

journey

lark

merrymaking

pudding

recreate

rennet

ride

sally

shindig

shindy

skylark

tapioca

tour

travel

trip

wassail

fruit jelly

bento

🍱

traveling in luxury

travelling in luxury

sport

travel to

amuse

charlotte russe

beguile

carouse

cold

🥶

commute

conviviality

dessert

festivity

frisk

frolic

fudge

Translations

banquet

festin

ziyafet

banquete

feestmaal

διασκεδάζω

banquete

banqueter

fête

⛷️

banket

πικ-νικ

Festmahl

συμπόσιο

γλέντι

Festessen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil.
Meaning shifted to “feast or banquet” by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of “pleasure trip” (1814), and then to specifically to “trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment” by 1886 in American English.