banquet

1. 1.

   provide a feast or banquet for

   Synonymsfeastjunket

   Broaderhost
2. 2.

   partake in a feast or banquet

   Synonymsfeastjunket

   Broadereat

   Narrowerwine and dine

Other forms of banquet

plural

banquets·

past tense

banqueted·

present participle

banqueting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about banquet

What does banquet mean?

banquet means "a ceremonial dinner party for many people". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in banquet?

banquet has 2 syllables: banq-uet. The stress falls on "banq". In IPA it is /ˈbæŋkwət/.

What is another word for banquet?

Close synonyms include feast, feast, spread, feast, junket. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is banquet a common word?

banquet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.