Definition of Banquet

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Banquet

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.

To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.

To partake of a dessert after a feast.

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Banquet Quotations

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Aristotle

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
James Thurber

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Rosalind Russell

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Pope Paul VI

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.
Adelbert von Chamisso

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
Rebecca H. Davis

Banquet Translations

banquet in Dutch is banket, feestmaal
banquet in French is banquet
banquet in German is Bankett, Festessen
banquet in Italian is banchetto
banquet in Latin is epulor, epulo
banquet in Spanish is banquete
banquet in Swedish is kalas, bankett

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