What is the difference between banquet and catering?
banquet | catering |
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
The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
The business of providing such services for special occasions.
The act of one who caters (to something).
* 1864 , J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos
As nouns the difference between banquet and catering
is that banquet is a large celebratory meal; a feast while catering is {{cx|uncountable|UK|lang=en}} The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.As verbs the difference between banquet and catering
is that banquet is to participate in a banquet; to feast while catering is present participle of lang=en.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.
catering
English
(wikipedia catering)Noun
- Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.