Synonyms for buffet
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Box — A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind
hit, box, blow, cuff, rap, dash, collision, pound, strike, knock, slap, pelt, smite, thwack
2. Smorgasbord — A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought
smorgasbord, sideboard, cupboard dated
3. Restaurant
restaurant, snack bar, diner, eatery informal, luncheonette
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
- n. 2
A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
- n. 3
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
We'll be serving supper buffet style.
Related words
- Phrases
- buffet car buffet bowling
Forms
- Plural
- buffets → hits, boxes, blows, cuffs…
Choose the right word
A buffet or cuff is given only with the hand; a blow either with hand or weapon.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- collision The car exploded a few moments after the collision.
- sideboard The glasses case is on the sideboard.
- restaurant We had a dinner of a kind at the cheap restaurant.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| buffet | rising | |
| collision | falling | |
| sideboard | rising | |
| smorgasbord | rising | |
| restaurant | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- hit1, box1, rap1
- 4 letters
- blow1, dash1, slap1, cuff1, pelt1
- 5 letters
- pound1, knock1, diner2, smite
- 6 letters
- strike1, eatery3, thwack
- 7 letters
- counter2
- 8 letters
- cupboard2
- 9 letters
- collision3, sideboard
- 10 letters
- restaurant3
- 11 letters
- smorgasbord3
- 12 letters
- luncheonette3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (diner2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- bar
- Italiano
- bar
- Español
- bar
- Deutsch
- Schanktisch
- Català
- bufet