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Banquet vs Bankrupt - What's the difference?

banquet | bankrupt |

As nouns the difference between banquet and bankrupt

is that banquet is a large celebratory meal; a feast while bankrupt is one who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.

As verbs the difference between banquet and bankrupt

is that banquet is to participate in a banquet; to feast while bankrupt is to force into bankruptcy.

As an adjective bankrupt is

in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.

banquet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large celebratory meal; a feast.
  • (archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
  • * Massinger
  • We'll dine in the great room, but let the music / And banquet be prepared here.

    Verb

  • To participate in a banquet; to feast.
  • * Milton
  • Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets , I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
  • (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
  • * Cavendish
  • Where they did both sup and banquet .
  • To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
  • * Coleridge
  • Just in time to banquet / The illustrious company assembled there.
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    bankrupt

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay one's debts.
  • a bankrupt merchant
  • Having been legally declared insolvent.
  • Destitute of, or wholly lacking (something once possessed, or something one should possess).
  • a morally bankrupt politician
  • * Sheridan
  • bankrupt in gratitude
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * bankruptcy * go bankrupt

    See also

    * defunct * illiquid * insolvent

    Verb

  • To force into bankruptcy.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who becomes unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person.
  • (UK, legal, obsolete) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
  • (Blackstone)

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