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Synonyms for banquet

Most common

dinner festival feast festivity reception

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A large celebratory meal; a feast.

Related words

Word family
banqueteer banqueter banqueting
Phrases
banquet roll

Forms

Plural
banquets → feasts, dinners, festivals, festivities…

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A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abudance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example sentences

  • dinner We had a dinner of a kind at the cheap restaurant.
  • festival She made friends with them at the school festival.
  • feast The marriage feast continued for three whole days.
  • festivity Once the festivity finishes, we'll go back to work.
  • reception Please come pick up your package at the reception.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
banquetsteady
dinnerrising
festivalrising
feastrising
festivityrising
receptionsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
treat1, feast1, revel2
6 letters
dinner2, spread1, regale2
7 letters
carouse2
8 letters
festival3
9 letters
reception3, festivity4
10 letters
regalement
13 letters
entertainment4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (revel2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
banquet
Italiano
banchetto
Español
comida festiva
Deutsch
Festmahl