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Definition: Banquet |
BanquetNoun1. A ceremonial dinner party for many people. 2. A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed: "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast". Verb1. Provide a feast or banquet for. 2. Partake in a feast or banquet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "banquet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Banquet \Ban"quet\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Banqueted; Banqueting.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Banquet a feast provided for the entertainment of a company of guests (Esther 5; 7; 1 Pet. 4:3); such as was provided for our Lord by his friends in Bethany (Matt. 26:6; Mark 14:3; comp. John 12:2). These meals were in the days of Christ usually called "suppers," after the custom of the Romans, and were partaken of toward the close of the day. It was usual to send a second invitation (Matt. 22:3; Luke 14:17) to those who had been already invited. When the whole company was assembled, the master of the house shut the door with his own hands (Luke 13:25; Matt. 25:10). The guests were first refreshed with water and fragrant oil (Luke 7:38; Mark 7:4). A less frequent custom was that of supplying each guest with a robe to be worn during the feast (Eccles. 9:8; Rev. 3:4, 5; Matt. 22:11). At private banquets the master of the house presided; but on public occasions a "governor of the feast" was chosen (John 2:8). The guests were placed in order according to seniority (Gen. 43:33), or according to the rank they held (Prov. 25:6,7; Matt. 23:6; Luke 14:7). As spoons and knives and forks are a modern invention, and were altogether unknown in the East, the hands alone were necessarily used, and were dipped in the dish, which was common to two of the guests (John 13:26). In the days of our Lord the guests reclined at table; but the ancient Israelites sat around low tables, cross-legged, like the modern Orientals. Guests were specially honoured when extra portions were set before them (Gen. 43:34), and when their cup was filled with wine till it ran over (Ps. 23:5). The hands of the guests were usually cleaned by being rubbed on bread, the crumbs of which fell to the ground, and were the portion for dogs (Matt. 15:27; Luke 16:21). At the time of the three annual festivals at Jerusalem family banquets were common. To these the "widow, and the fatherless, and the stranger" were welcome (Deut. 16:11). Sacrifices also included a banquet (Ex. 34:15; Judg. 16:23). Birthday banquets are mentioned (Gen. 40:20; Matt. 14:6). They were sometimes protracted, and attended with revelry and excess (Gen. 21:8; 29:22; 1 Sam. 25:2,36; 2 Sam. 13:23). Portions were sometimes sent from the table to poorer friends (Neh. 8:10; Esther 9:19, 22). (See MEALS.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | It is good to dream of a banquet. Friends will wait to do you favors. To dream of yourself, together with many gaily-attired guests, eating from costly plate and drinking wine of fabulous price and age, foretells enormous gain in enterprises of every nature, and happiness among friends. To see inharmonious influences, strange and grotesque faces or empty tables, is ominous of grave misunderstandings or disappointments. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
General | Normally a formally seated dinner in the evening with speeches given in the presence of or by a VIP(Very Important Person). Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Banquet used at one time to mean the dessert. Thus, Taylor, in the Pennyless Pilgrim, says: "Our first and second course being threescore dishes at one boord, and after that, always a banquet." (French, banquet; banc, a bench or table. We use "table" also for a meal or feast, as "the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage table," i.e. feast.) "After supper ... a delicate banquet, with abundance of wine." - Cogan (1583). A banquet of brine. A flood of tears. "My heart was charged to overflowing, and forced into my eyes a banquet of brine." - O. Thomson: Autobiography, p. 263. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: BanquetSynonyms: feast (v), junket (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: banqueting (general). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool. | |
Food | Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana. |
Live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse; (make merry); eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I'm very embarrassed, General Solo, but it seems you are to be the main course at a banquet in my honor (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan) Life's a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death (Mame; writing credit: Patrick Dennis; Jerome Lawrence) | |
Lyrics | Love is a banquet on which we feed (Because The Night; performing artist: Patti Smith) | |
Clever | Far too many people spend their lives reading the menu instead of enjoying the banquet. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Banquet des fraudeurs (1952) Banquet Busters (1948) The Strangers' Banquet (1922) At the Banquet Table (1915) Bondi Banquet (1999) | |
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 | Farewell Banquet and Ball Tenth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Convention Banquet Medical Library Association. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Annual banquet. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | What every husband knows. 4 a.m., too much lodge banquet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Banquet table in the big sewer, Waterloo, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Banquet in Alumni Hall [i.e., University Commons], Yale College. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Banquet Room, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portsmouth, Ohio. Elks' banquet at the country club. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Banquet scene. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Schrafft's, Eastchester. Banquet room I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aesop | A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. |
Aristotle | It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken. |
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | Yes! Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-b---- are starving to death! Live! |
Lucretius | Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care? |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The confused sounds of the banquet reached him. |
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Civil Liberties | Egypt | Confiscated works included poetry by Lebanese poet Joseph Harb, two novels and an autobiography by Egyptian feminist Nawal al-Sa'adawi, "Crazy Stories," by Egyptian author Yehia Ibrahim, three works ("The Tent," "The Naked Bread," and "al-Shutar") by Moroccan author Mohammed Shukri, "The Merciful and the Devil," by Syrian author Firas al-Sawah, "Politics between the Permitted and the Forbidden," by Saudi Arabian author Turki Hamad, two works ("Fear of Modernism" and "Are you Shielded from the Harem?") by Moroccan feminist Fatma al-Mernissi, and "A Banquet for Seaweed," by Syrian author Haidar Haidar. (references) |
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| "Banquet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.89% of the time. "Banquet" is used about 360 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.89% | 356 | 15,102 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.83% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.28% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 360 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "banquet": banquet on smth. ♦ banquet song ♦ gala banquet ♦ throw a banquet. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "banquet": banquet-goers, banquet-hall. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "banquet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | banket. (various references) | |
Albanian | banket (feast), marr pjesë në banket, i shtroj banket, gostit (entertain, feast, regale, treat). (various references) | |
Arabic | محفلة, مأدبة (feast, function, junket, repast, spread, tuck), وليمة (feast, junket), إستمتع بالطعام, أقام (build, dwell, erect, establish, home, institute, live, locate, lodge, occupy, perch, reinstate, reside, roost, sojourn, stay, tenant). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | угощавам (entertain, regale, treat), банкет (dinner, do, feast), пиршество (carousal, carouse, feast, regale, symposium), пир (feast, regale, revel, wassail). (various references) | |
Chinese | 讌會 (dinner party, feast), 晚宴 (dinner party), 宴會 , 宴会, 宴席 , 席 (place, seat, woven mat). (various references) | |
Czech | banket (feast), recepce (function, reception), hostina (dinner, feast, junket, regale, spread, symposium). (various references) | |
Danish | festmåltid (feast). (various references) | |
Dutch | banket (almond pastry), feestmaal (feast). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bankedo, bankedi (feast), festeno (feast). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hátíðarborðhald (feast). (various references) | |
Farsi | مهمانی (Cocktail, Dinner, Party, Reception, Regale), مهمان کردن (Guest, Invite, Treat), سور, ضیافت (Repast, Symposium), بزم (Party, Shindig). (various references) | |
Finnish | syöminki (feast), pidot (feast), juhlapäivälliset (gala dinner), juhla-ateria. (various references) | |
French | banquet. (various references) | |
Frisian | feestmiel (feast). (various references) | |
German | festessen (dinner, feast, spread), bankett (feast, hard shoulder, shoulder, verge), gelage (binge, carousal, carousals, carouse, feast, junket, wassail). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπόσιο (feast, symposium). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משת" (board, drink, drinking, feast), מרזח (feast, revel, revelry, spree), מסב (armchair, circle, environ), לערוך משת" (throw a banquet), ב קט, סעו"" (feast, meal, repast, spread). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bankett, díszebéd (state dinner), lakoma (beano, bout, cheer, conviviality, feast, junket, repast, spread), díszvacsora. (various references) | |
Indonesian | perjamuan. (various references) | |
Italian | banchetto (feast, spread). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 正餐 (formal dinner), 宴席 (dinner party), 宴 (party), 宴会 (party), 宴会 (party), 会席料理 , 供応 (feast, treat), 宴 (party), 招宴 (invitation to a party, party), 賀宴 , バロック音楽 (advance, ballon d essai, Bangkok, banjo, bank, banker, banshee, bantam, barometer, baron, Baroque music, bun, bungalow, bunker, van, Van Allen, Vancouver), 祝宴 , 馳走 (entertainment, feast, goodies, treat), 饗応 (entertainment, feast, treat), '宴 (drinking bout), '宴 (drinking bout), 供宴 (dinner). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がえ", バンケット , しゅくえ" (destiny, fate, karma, old grudge, old score), しゅえ" (drinking bout, playing the leading part, starring), きょうおう (entertainment, feast, one's heart of hearts, Pope, the depths of one's mind, treat), しょうえ" (demesne, gunpowder smoke, ink stick, invitation to a party, manor, party, smallparty, soot of burnt pine), きょうえ" (appearing together, co-acting, co-starring, dinner, feast, recital contest), うた' (party), せいさ" (celebrant, confidence in success, Emperor's age, exact calculation, formal dinner, ghastliness, ghostliness, gruesomeness, hydrocyanicacid, liquidation, luridness, manufacture, production, settlement, squaring of accounts), かいせきりょうり (Traditional Japanese meal brought in courses), ちそう (divination based on the lay of the land, entertainment, feast, geographic features, goodies, layer, stratum, treat), え"せき (a relative, curb, dinner party, distant relative, matting, relatives), え"かい (coast, coastal waters, deep sea, inshore, ocean, party, postponementof meeting, shore). (various references) | |
Korean | 연회. (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo fleah, fleah (feast), cur fleah da, cuirrey (cite, feast, invitation, invite, sow). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anquetbay.(various references) | |
Polish | biesiada (feast), bankiet, uczta (feast), przyjęcie (feast). (various references) | |
Portuguese | banquete (dinner, dinner-party, feast, feast-day, regale, wassail). (various references) | |
Romanian | benchetui (cheer, feast), banchet (dinner party, entertainment, feast, house dinner, regale, repast, spread, symposium), trata (argue, attend, back a bill, cover, deal, discourse, discuss, doctor, entertain, handle, negotiate, nurse, physic, regale, serve, style, treat, use, work), ospãta (board, feast, feed, grub, regale, treat, welcome), ospãţ (feast, feasting, regale, repast, treat), oferi un banchet, festin (feast), chef (bacchanalia, binge, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish). (various references) | |
Russian | банкет (banquette, feast, kid-glove affair). (various references) | |
Scottish | fleadh (a feast, entertainment, feast), cuirm (a feast, feast). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | banket (banquette), prirediti banket, pir (feast, regale, revel, spelt), gozba (feast, regale). (various references) | |
Spanish | banquete (dinner, feast). (various references) | |
Swedish | bankett (dinner), kalas (celebration, feast, festival, junket, party, spread). (various references) | |
Turkish | ziyafete katılmak, ziyafet vermek (feast, fete, throw a banquet), ziyafet (beanfeast, beano, dinner, dinner party, entertainment, feast, junket, spread, treat), yemek vermek, yemeğe katılmak, resmi yemek, şölen (beanfeast, beano, feast, fete, spread). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зemen (banquet wreath, me). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | урочистий обід, бенкетувати (carouse, feast, hobnob, junket, make whoopee, regale, revel), бенкет (carousal, epulation, feast, regale, repast), пир, давати бенкет. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiệc lớn. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwledda (feast), gwledd (feast). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ka-de-a. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | convictus, daps, dominio, dominium, epulae, epularum, epulas, epulis, epulo, epulor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Esther Chapter 7, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eishlqen de o basileuV kai aman sumpiein th basilissh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Intravit itaque rex et Aman ut biberent cum regina |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And so the king cam in and Aman to the feste, that thei shulde drinke with the quen. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So the king and Haman came to take wine with Esther the queen. |
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| Language | Esther Chapter 7, Verse 1 |
| Albanian | Mbreti dhe Hamani shkuan, pra, në banketin bashkë me mbretëreshën Ester. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Busa ang hari ug si Aman ming-adto sa combira ni Ester nga reina. |
| Chinese | 王 帶 著 " 曼 來 赴 王 后 以 斯 帖 的 筵 席 ． |
| Croatian | Kralj i Haman doðoše na gozbu kraljici Esteri. |
| Danish | Da Kongen tillige med Haman var kommet til Gæstebudet hos Dronning Ester |
| Dutch | Toen de koning met Haman gekomen was, om te drinken met de koningin Esther; |
| Finnish | Kun kuningas ja Haaman olivat tulleet kuningatar Esterin luo juomaan, |
| French | Le roi et Haman allèrent au festin chez la reine Esther. |
| German | Und da der König mit Haman kam zum Mahl, das die Königin Esther zugerichtet hatte, |
| Hungarian | És elméne a király és Hámán a lakomára, Eszter királynéhoz. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Maka untuk kedua kalinya raja dan Haman makan minum bersama-sama dengan Ester. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah sudah datang baginda serta Haman kepada perjamuan permaisuri Ester, |
| Italian | Il re e Am n andarono dunque al banchetto con la regina Ester. |
| Manx Gaelic | Myr shen haink y ree as Haman gys ny cuirraghyn, marish Esther yn ven-rein. |
| Maori | ¶ Heoi, kua tae te kingi raua ko Hamana ki te hakari, ki te kuini, ki a Ehetere. |
| Norwegian | Så kom da kongen og Haman til gjestebudet hos dronning Ester. |
| Portuguese | Entraram, pois, o rei e Hamã para se banquetearem com a rainha Ester. |
| Rumanian | Kmpqratul wi Haman s`au dus la ospqy la kmpqrqteasa Estera. |
| Spanish | Fueron, pues, el rey y Amán a comer con la reina Ester. |
| Swedish | Hamans undergång. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "banquet": banqueted, banqueter, banqueters, banqueting, banquets, banquette, banquettes. (additional references) | |
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"Banquet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anquet, Anquetil, Banctec, bankment, bankquet, banque, banquett, banquit, Baquoy, Basqyuet, jaquet, sanquar, Sanquest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "banquet" (pronounced ba"ngkwut) |
| 4 | -k w u t | adequate, inadequate. |
| 3 | -w u t | graduate, undergraduate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-q-t-u" | |
-1 letter: butane. | |
-2 letters: beaut, quant, quate, quean, tabun, tubae. | |
-3 letters: abet, abut, ante, aunt, bane, bate, bean, beat, beau, bent, beta, bunt, bute, etna, nabe, neat, tabu, tuba, tube, tuna, tune, unbe. | |
-4 letters: ane, ant, ate, ban, bat, ben, bet, bun, but, eat, eau, eta, nab, nae, neb, net, nub, nut, qat, qua, tab, tae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-q-t-u" | |
+1 letter: banquets. | |
+2 letters: banqueted, banqueter, banquette. | |
+3 letters: banqueters, banqueting, banquettes, blanquette. | |
+4 letters: barquentine, bequeathing, blanquettes, equilibrant, inequitable, inequitably. | |
+5 letters: barquentines, equilibrants, quantifiable, questionable, questionably. | |
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