Banquet vs Buffet - What's the difference?
banquet | buffet |
A large celebratory meal; a feast.
(archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
* Massinger
To participate in a banquet; to feast.
* Milton
(obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
* Cavendish
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
* Coleridge
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
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Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
* Townely Myst
A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Burke
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To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
* Bible, Matthew xxvi. 67
(figurative) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
* 2013 May 23, , "
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
* Broome
* W. Black
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
A low stool; a hassock.
English heteronyms
English terms with multiple etymologies
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As nouns the difference between banquet and buffet
is that banquet is a large celebratory meal; a feast while buffet is a counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.As verbs the difference between banquet and buffet
is that banquet is to participate in a banquet; to feast while buffet is to strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.banquet
English
Noun
(en noun)- We'll dine in the great room, but let the music / And banquet be prepared here.
Verb
- Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets , I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
- Where they did both sup and banquet .
- Just in time to banquet / The illustrious company assembled there.
buffet
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia buffet) .Noun
(en noun)- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet , and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
- Go fetch us a light buffet .
Synonyms
* (food ): buffet meal, smorgasbordEtymology 2
Old French '', diminutive of ''buffe'', cognate with Italian ''buffetto''. See buffer''', '''buffoon , and compare German ''puffen , to jostle, to hustleNoun
(en noun)- On his cheek a buffet fell.
- those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay
Synonyms
* (blow''): blow, collision (''by any solid object''), cuff (''with the hand )Verb
- They spit in his face and buffeted him.
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
- to buffet the billows
- The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
- You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
