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Restaurant vs Banquet - What's the difference?

restaurant | banquet |

As nouns the difference between restaurant and banquet

is that restaurant is while banquet is a large celebratory meal; a feast.

As a verb banquet is

to participate in a banquet; to feast.

restaurant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * bar * cook, chef * drive-in * fast food * grill * menu, * slow food * waiter (m), waitress (f), waitron 1000 English basic words ----

    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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