as in dinner
a large fancy meal often accompanied by ceremony or entertainment
prepared a celebratory banquet for the graduating class
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Recent Examples of banquet
Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
At the state banquet on Wednesday night, Queen Camilla wore the Belgian sapphire tiara, a piece from Queen Elizabeth II’s collection that was worn to state dinners during her reign.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
However, the annual mushers banquet in Anchorage won’t happen as usual on the Thursday before the race.
—Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2021
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Noun
The diary takes in all the tittle tattle, including rumors around a Paramount bid for ITV, a re-up of The Crown EP Andy Harries’ Sony contract and a heroic Channel 4 comms chief swooping in to save the day after hacks were locked out of the traditional King’s College banquet.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
At the state banquet on Wednesday night, Queen Camilla wore the Belgian sapphire tiara, a piece from Queen Elizabeth II’s collection that was worn to state dinners during her reign.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
As photos on the academy website show, this was the last of the banqueting Oscars.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
However, the annual mushers banquet in Anchorage won’t happen as usual on the Thursday before the race.
—Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Jan. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for banquet
Noun
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All three dishes nest together neatly for easy storage in your cabinet once dinner is done.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
25 Sep. 2025
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That’s a dream kind of dinner to go to.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Earlier this year, the district honored Pendleton by renaming a campus after the groundbreaking administrator.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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As the fest kicked off, The Hollywood Reporter caught up with outgoing director José Luis Rebordinos, who went into more depth about the decision to honor Lawrence.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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With harvest feasts, offerings, and personalized rituals that honor light and dark.—
Michaela Trimble,
Vogue,
18 Sep. 2025
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According to Alixandra, who didn't share her surname, Sparrow masterminded her own midnight feast by toppling the feeder and prying off the lid.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Like his Washington, Bargatze’s Farnsworth regaled a trio of underlings (SNL cast members Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and James Austin Johnson) with ridiculous yet accurate predictions for the future, in this case of TV.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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Her mother, an enslaved woman whose name is lost to history, had been a storyteller, too, regaling the girl with folktales on the Maryland plantation where she was born in the mid-nineteenth century.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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As Remo Gerra, manager of Veneto Trattoria, recalled, Kirk would dine at the restaurant a few times a month, usually with Erika Kirk and their kids, or with some of his business associates.—
Shawn Raymundo,
AZCentral.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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In 2022, a bidder paid over $19 million to dine with American investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, to benefit a San Francisco charity.—
Ernestine Siu,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Local spats could now feed into a mass movement that spread far beyond individual disputes between a peasant and a particularly nasty abbot or lord.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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Today, most of this is being handled by immature European and Asian young males working at the behest of corporations and governments who are switching between feeding AIs and wargames.—
Rick Tumlinson,
Space.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Banquet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banquet. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.
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