junket

1. 1.

   go on a pleasure trip

   Synonymsjunketeer

   Broadertravel
2. 2.

   provide a feast or banquet for

   Synonymsfeastbanquet

   Broaderhost
3. 3.

   partake in a feast or banquet

   Synonymsfeastbanquet

   Broadereat

   Narrowerwine and dine

Other forms of junket

plural

junkets·

past tense

junketted·

present participle

junketting·

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 junket

What does junket mean?

junket means "dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in junket?

junket has 2 syllables: jun-ket. The stress falls on "jun". In IPA it is /ˈdʒʌŋkɪt/.

What is another word for junket?

Close synonyms include excursion, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, expedition. 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 junket a common word?

junket is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.