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noun

plural of banquet
as in dinners
a large fancy meal often accompanied by ceremony or entertainment prepared a celebratory banquet for the graduating class

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verb

present tense third-person singular of banquet
as in feasts
to entertain with a fancy meal banqueted the returning troops at the military base

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Recent Examples of banquets
Noun
Once settled into cozy banquets and armchairs around the tables, dinner was served—family-style, in all its Italian glory. — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2026 The clubhouse had undergone an extensive renovation about two years ago and is the part of the facility where community banquets are held, the mayor noted. — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Plenty of photos and reels come from moving-up ceremonies, sports banquets, and firsts. — Sarah Scott, Parents, 4 Sep. 2026 For example, Hermès chief executive officer Axel Dumas has looked to pork prices as a proxy for consumer confidence, citing pork consumption’s ties to banquets and social gatherings during the company’s most recent earnings call. — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026 For now, the venue hosts exclusive cocktail parties, weddings, birthdays and formal banquets in the enormous main hall. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026 Marie-Louise is enraged one minute, subservient the next, bullying the staff while throwing banquets for Nazi officials. — David Denby, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 The plan includes additional premium seating, suites and a club space capable of hosting banquets and other events. — Usa Today, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 Who knows when state banquets will return to the ornate halls of Buckingham Palace? — Ben Jureidini, Vanity Fair, 21 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for banquets
  1. dinners
  2. feasts
  3. honors
  4. regales
  5. feeds
  6. dines
Noun
  • Chanel’s extraordinary trips—access to palaces, private jets, Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, caviar dinners—all pass through the book as mundane elements of the scenery.
    — Olivier Bouchara, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Pham’s growing following of customers, who have eagerly preordered one of the limited number of ducks, are set to begin arriving to collect their dinners in the next hour.
    — Heather Platt, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of dinners
Verb
  • Jordan Clarkson, New York Clarkson rebirthed his career in New York as a role-playing bench wing who feasts on offensive boards (no, really) and plays more defense than the Utah version.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • Well, Sydney feasts a little bit at the end.
    — Claire Messud, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2026
Definition of feasts
Verb
  • Peach honors the fruit closely associated with the state, and white represents the dogwood, Georgia's state flower.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The recognition honors Endaya’s more than five decades of pioneering work in feminist and socially engaged art.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of honors
Verb
  • Trump regularly regales audiences with his prowess as a dealmaker by recounting conversations he's had with Macron about trade irritants, mimicking Macron's responses in an exaggerated accent.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 June 2026
  • Aboard the boat, Terry regales his passengers with tales of the river, from namesake Twain to tragic Lovers' Leap just downstream of Hannibal.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 31 May 2026
Definition of regales
Verb
  • Different assumptions give different answers, and because each step feeds the next, the differences grow – what scientists call cascading uncertainty.
    — Robert Kopp, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
  • That underdog context feeds into the implicit soft power competition between the Toho Godzilla releases and the American franchise from Legendary, which has spouted a whole Monsterverse involving King Kong and an accompanying TV show.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of feeds
Verb
  • The cocktails are available to any guest who dines at Broken Shaker.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Every guest after the first 100 who dines in from Saturday through Monday can get a buy one, get one beef pepper rice.
    — Zacharia Washington, Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar. 2026
Definition of dines

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“Banquets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banquets. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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