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Smorgasbord - What does it mean?

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smorgasbord

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A buffet.
  • * 1965', California Bureau of Food and Drug Inspections, ''Recommendations for Food Protection Devices: Cafeterias, Buffets, Chuck Wagons, '''Smorgasbords , page 1,
    • Cafeterias, buffets, chuck wagon service and smorgasbords are becoming increasingly popular food service methods.
  • * 2010', Pete Helland, ''Thanks to God for the '''Smorgasbord'' , Jeff Pepper, ''Daily Triumph , page 15,
    • It is a smorgasbord'. That means that after you pay a certain amount of money for your meal you can eat anything you want, together with as much as you want. I remember the first time my folks took me to a ' smorgasbord .
  • * 2011 , Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Roger Norum, Frommer's Scandinavia , page 17,
    • The fame of the smörgåsbord (smorgasbord') is justly deserved. Using a vast array of dishes—everything from Baltic herring to smoked reindeer—the ' smorgasbord (never served in the evening) can be eaten either as hors d'oeuvres or as a meal in itself.
  • (figuratively) A diverse collection of things.
  • * 2004 , Nicholas Ayo, Times of Grace: Spiritual Rhythms of the Year at the University of Notre Dame , page 59,
    • Here is the smorgasbord of life, and our unfocused eyes are even bigger than our stomachs.
  • * 2011 , Lorena Bathey, Happy Beginnings: How I Became My Own Fairy Godmother , unnumbered page,
    • It appeared to me that this sexual smorgasbord was a way for these women to feel something again.
  • * 2011 , Charles Hanly, Chapter Seven: Logic, Meaning and Truth in Psychoanalytic Research'', Jorge Canestri, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Mary Target (editors), ''Early Development and its Disturbances , page 211,
    • As such, and unlike philosophy which has toyed with this self-definition, it is not good enough for psychoanalysis to be a smorgasbord' of alternative ways of interpreting human nature. The ' smorgasbord of available therapies is already heavily laden with alternative psychotherapies without psychoanalysis adding further varieties of its own.

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