(n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.
(n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.
(v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
(v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
(v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen hosts the banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
(2) Is she going to make it over for the banquet tomorrow?
(3) A senior Gulf diplomat said: “They are inviting the vultures to the banquet table.
(4) The rescue effort got under way at about 11pm last night when the group of world leaders left a state banquet hosted by Queen Margrethe and returned to the convention centre to get to work.
(5) Like a bandit who has cajoled his way in, the parasite now forces his host to prepare a banquet for him.
(6) In contrast, it is highly unlikely China's leader could find fault with the welcome laid out by the Obama administration: a private White House dinner tonight to be followed later in the week by a full state banquet, a 21-gun salute and all the pomp and circumstance of a review of the troops.
(7) The leader of the world’s largest autocracy will enjoy a 103-gun royal salute and a sumptuous, white-tie state banquet attended by three generations of the royal family; he will address the houses of parliament and at night will sleep in the palace’s Belgian Suite, in the very same bed that Duke and Duchess of Cambridge used on their wedding night .
(8) On the northern side of the main palace stands the banqueting hall where the Chinese delegation was housed.
(9) First of all, I think the state banquet is for Her Majesty, it is her show, either Jeremy Corbyn or others are her guests,” he said.
(10) The Commonwealth heads of government meeting – a three-day gathering staged every two years – begins next Friday with the sovereign's opening speech and that evening a traditional banquet will be held.
(11) Some observers assert that rather than seeking to contain the number of people at the banquet of life, we should enlarge the table and place more food upon it.
(12) The PM told the lord mayor's banquet that he yearns for " fundamental change " in the EU, but such yearning is futile unless he can set out what he means by fundamental change, and how he intends to effect it.
(13) There is little evidence that hungover customers struggle, taste-wise, with what one provider calls the Auschwitz Stag Do Package, which could be attributable to amnesia, or to that fact that, as with lap dancing and medieval banquets, what happens at Birkenau stays at Birkenau.
(14) "Every room in the centre had a banquet, and each banquet included abalone and other expensive dishes," Jia said.
(15) They know how to behave on occasions like this … You think the Labour party will raise human rights at a state banquet?
(16) Which is doubtless doing a Christmas deal on festive football with the opportunity to treat someone special to a banquet of motor racing in the new year.
(17) Speaking at the annual St Matthew’s Day banquet in Hamburg, Cameron said he would “unequivocally recommend” that Britain stays in the EU if he clinched the deal on Friday.
(18) Guzmán went underground as Mexico descended into the abyss, boasting that he paid out $5m a month to corrupt officials, and making sudden, brazen appearances such as that in May 2005 at a restaurant in Nuevo Laredo, his enemy’s doorstep, when 40 diners found the doors suddenly locked by his gunmen to be told: “Don’t be alarmed, order whatever you want, and we’ll pay.” Another of his banquets in Mexico City was raided by the army – but too late, finding only four hapless members of the band paid to entertain Guzmán, who were arrested for possession of firearms.
(19) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
(20) There are many more phases to come, including further luxury accommodation, a residential village, second golf course, banqueting facilities and other high-end leisure amenities.” James Bream, a research and policy director for Aberdeenshire tourism board, believes the opening of the first course in 2012 has increased tourism and given north-east Scotland a far higher-profile in the golfing world, helping its economy spread beyond a reliance on North Sea oil.
Junket
Definition:
(n.) A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
(n.) A feast; an entertainment.
(v. i.) To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
(v. t.) To give entertainment to; to feast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed it is hard to see what this junket is really about, other than to have a thoroughly good time.
(2) It was slightly unfair of me because I already disliked him – the only junket I've ever done was with him, and he kept everyone waiting for 10 hours, then turned up for about one minute.
(3) He dined with developers in private, at a huge property junket in Cannes called Mipim, and publicly announced his grand bargain with capital: they should be allowed to build as big as they wanted, as long as he could take a tithe of the proceeds to spend on such things as affordable housing.
(4) AstraZeneca, however, did not sponsor any doctors to go to conferences in 2012, a major departure for a pharmaceutical company, because the bad publicity surrounding drug company junkets made it rethink its policy.
(5) Ratner's initial gaffe came during a junket for his new film Tower Heist last week.
(6) Tarantino himself seemed irritated when questioned on the issue of whether Hollywood contributes to gun violence at a junket for his new film on Saturday in New York.
(7) The pair are due in the city this week for a press junket and tonight’s (Tuesday’s) Italian premiere of Noah.
(8) The junkets and lunches are now largely in the past, says the bond man.
(9) The Queensland premier and mayors are on a dangerous junket to promote a damaging project.
(10) It’s now packed at weekends – but retains its quirky, homely feel – with people converging from far and wide for pre-ordered paella, and the heartily recommended house speciality, cuajadera , a saffron-rich seafood stew (intriguingly, erroneously translated as “junket of sandpiper” on the menu).
(11) He is likely getting fed up with the other role that comes with the Bond territory – doing endless interviews, press junkets and promotions, a Groundhog Day of feigned enthusiasm, gushing superlatives and identical answers to identical questions.
(12) We arrived at this ghastly junket, was given our 15-minute slot, which is tricky because on Front Row we run eight or nine minutes, so you've got to hit the ground running.
(13) Almodóvar cancelled a press junket on Wednesday for his newest film Julieta after facing scrutiny over his financial arrangements.
(14) A round halfway through I'm Still Here , the 2010 documentary chronicling Joaquin Phoenix 's short-lived rap career and apparent retirement from acting, he undertakes a shambolic press junket, snapping when a journalist asks if it's all a hoax.
(15) The cables, which first surfaced with the Wikileaks disclosures two years ago, described a series of separate public relations strategies, unrolled at dozens of press junkets and biotech conferences, aimed at convincing scientists, media, industry, farmers, elected officials and others of the safety and benefits of GM products.
(16) They have to do these junkets all the time and any excitement faded when they made their first trip to the Cement Manufacturers Trade Expo in Brazil.
(17) British ministers on Olympic partnership junkets had "to raise the question of human rights" at every meeting.
(18) He also allegedly hosted lavish junkets for these African officials at which he handed out almost $400,000 in cash.
(19) He seems in later life to have found some sort of serenity, underpinned by the Stoic philosophy which, superbly stated, ends Satire X : Still, if you must pray for something, if at every shrine you offer The entrails and holy chitterlings of a white piglet Then ask for a healthy mind in a healthy body, Demand a valiant heart for which death holds no terrors, That reckons length of life as the least among the gifts Of nature, that's strong to endure every kind of sorrow, That's anger free, lusts for nothing, and prefers The sorrows and labours of Hercules to all Sardanapulus' downy cushions and women and junketings.
(20) Dismissing Rio+20 and other mega-conferences as mere junkets was a "totally irresponsible way of thinking" he said.