banquet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bankiz
Proto-West Germanic *banki
Lombardic bankbor.
Italian banco
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Italian -etto
Italian banchettoder.
Middle French banquetbor.
Middle English banket
English banquet
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.
Inflected forms:
form: banquets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bankette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: banquets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: banqueting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: banquetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
uncommon
form: banqueted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: banqueted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: banquetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
uncommon
form: banquetted
pos: verb
tags: past
uncommon
form: bankette
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A large celebratory meal; a feast.
pos: noun
examples: True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,
And in his commendations I am fed; / It is a banquet to me.
And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
So comes a Reck’ning when the Banquet’s o’er, / The dreadful Reck’ning, and Men ſmile no more.
[T]he hazels rose / Tall and erect, with milk-white clusters hung, / A virgin scene! — A little while I stood, / Breathing with such suppression of the heart / As joy delights in; and, with wise restraint / Voluptuous, fearless of a rival, eyed / The banquet, […]
Who goes to dine must take his feast / Or find the banquet mean; / The table is not laid without / Till it is laid within.
And the sun, even as you and I and all there is, sits in equal honour at the banquet of the Prince whose door is always open and whose board is always spread.
The thrill of discovery quickly wore off. TV crews and reporters were soon scurrying frantically to satisfy the medium’s insatiable appetite for novelty, sometimes achieving massive inanity instead. During coverage of the first great banquet, correspondents—who had not been given menus—variously described those little orange balls decorating the table’s center as pomegranates, oranges or JellO. (They were actually North China tangerines.)
gloss: A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
pos: noun
gloss: A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Wee'll dine in the great roome, but let the muſick / And banquet be prepar'd here.
At Inverkeithing the teetotalers objected to this profligate expenditure, so the Provost and magistrates manfully paid for their “cookies” out of their own pockets. At Dunse, instead of a cake and wine banquet, there was “a fruit conversazione,” whatever that may be.
gloss: To participate in a banquet; to feast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast: / The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: / Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, / I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
"Ay, ay," said Wamba, who had resumed his attendance on his master, "rare feeding there will be—pity that the noble Athelstane cannot banquet at his own funeral.—But he," continued the Jester, lifting up his eyes gravely, "is supping in Paradise, and doubtless does honour to the cheer."
gloss: To have dessert after a feast.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Not possible; for who shall bear your part / And be in Padua here Vincentio's son; / Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends, / Visit his countrymen, and banquet them?
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.
They treated them with profound reverence, as beings descended from heaven, and conducted them to a spacious house, the residence of the cacique, where they were banquetted in their simple but hospitable way, with bread and various fruits of excellent flavour, and different kinds of beverages which have been already mentioned.
Derived words: after-banquet
banquet burger
banqueteer
banqueteering
banquetlike
banquet roll
banquet trolleyen
banqueter
banqueting
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