banquet
noun · verbB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A large celebratory meal; a feast.
Đồng nghĩa: reception
- 2.
A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
- 3.
(archaic)A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To participate in a banquet; to feast.
- 2.
(obsolete)To have dessert after a feast.
1580, George Cavendish, quoted by John Stow (ed.), The Annales of England, Faithfully collected out of the most autenticall Authors, Records, and other Monuments of Antiquitie, 1600 edition, “Henry the eight.,” p. 907, Then was the banquetting chamber in the tilt yard at Greenewich, to the which place these strangers were conducted by the noblest personages in the court, where they did both sup and banquet.
- 3.
(transitive)To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
1800, Frederick Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act I, scene i, p. 2, Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there.
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From Middle English banket, from Middle French banquet, from Italian banchetto (light repast between meals, snack eaten on a small bench), from banco (bench), from *bank, *panch (bench), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (bench). Akin to bank, banch (bench), benċ. More at bank, bench. The unetymological /w/ resulted from spelling-pronunciation.