BANQUET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banquet mean? 

• BANQUET (noun)
  The noun BANQUET has 2 senses:

1. a ceremonial dinner party for many people

2. a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed

  Familiarity information: BANQUET used as a noun is rare.

• BANQUET (verb)
  The verb BANQUET has 2 senses:

1. provide a feast or banquet for

2. partake in a feast or banquet

  Familiarity information: BANQUET used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANQUET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ceremonial dinner party for many people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

banquet; feast

Hypernyms ("banquet" is a kind of...):

dinner; dinner party (a party of people assembled to have dinner together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banquet"):

gaudy ((Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college)

Derivation:

banquet (provide a feast or banquet for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

banquet; feast; spread

Context example:

they put out quite a spread

Hypernyms ("banquet" is a kind of...):

meal; repast (the food served and eaten at one time)

Derivation:

banquet (provide a feast or banquet for)

• BANQUET (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they banquet    ... he / she / it banquets   
Past simple: banqueted   
Past participle: banqueted   
-ing form: banqueting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide a feast or banquet for

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

banquet; feast; junket

Hypernyms (to "banquet" is one way to...):

host (be the host of or for)

Verb group:

banquet; feast; junket (partake in a feast or banquet)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot banquet Sue

Derivation:

banquet (a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed)

banquet (a ceremonial dinner party for many people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Partake in a feast or banquet

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

banquet; feast; junket

Hypernyms (to "banquet" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Verb group:

banquet; feast; junket (provide a feast or banquet for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "banquet"):

wine and dine (eat sumptuously)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue banquet

 Context examples 

The vast majority of stellar black holes in our galaxy are not engaged in a cosmic banquet, though, and thus don't emit revealing X-rays.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“The council will not break up until the banquet,” remarked a gray-haired squire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But he knew only that he was hungry, and through his restless sleep he dreamed of feasts and banquets and of food served and spread in all imaginable ways.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"Do you forget," he said, with actually a smile, "that last night he banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The hearing of all this, and a good deal more, outlasted the banquet some time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He sat, the guest of honor, at an Arden Club banquet, with men of note whom he had heard about and read about all his life; and they told him how, when they had read The Ring of Bells in the Transcontinental, and The Peri and the Pearl in The Hornet, they had immediately picked him for a winner.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Feeling that the neighbors were interested in her movements, she wished to efface the memory of yesterday's failure by a grand success today, so she ordered the 'cherry bounce', and drove away in state to meet and escort her guests to the banquet.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The coming night might see my own body a banquet in a similar way to those horrid three.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The walls were hung all round with most elaborate and brightly colored tapestry, representing the achievements of Sir Bevis of Hampton, and behind this convenient screen were stored the tables dormant and benches which would be needed for banquet or high festivity.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In short, the banquet was such a failure that I should have been quite unhappy—about the failure, I mean, for I was always unhappy about Dora—if I had not been relieved by the great good humour of my company, and by a bright suggestion from Mr. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)