Synonyms for banqueting
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : bang-kwit |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæŋ kwɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for banqueting Other synonyms for the word banqueting
- absorb
- banquet
- bolt
- break bread
- breakfast
- cater
- chow down
- cram
- digest
- dish out
- dispatch
- dispense
- dispose of
- do lunch
- eat sumptuously
- entertain
- fall to
- fatten
- feast
- feast upon
- feed
- feed on
- fill
- find
- foster
- fuel
- furnish
- give
- gobble up
- gorge
- gormandize
- graze
- hand
- hand over
- have a bite
- have a meal
- have for
- indulge
- ingest
- inhale
- lunch
- maintain
- make pig of oneself
- masticate
- minister
- munch
- nibble
- nosh
- nourish
- nurse
- nurture
- overindulge
- partake of
- peck at
- pick
- pig out
- polish off
- pork out
- provide
- provision
- put away
- regale
- ruminate
- satisfy
- scarf
- scoff
- snack
- stock
- strengthen
- stuff
- stuff one's face
- sup
- supper
- supply
- support
- sustain
- swallow
- take food
- take in
- take nourishment
- treat
- victual
- wine and dine
- wolf
Définition of banqueting
Origin :- late 15c., "feast, sumptuous entertainment," from French banquet (15c.; in Old French only "small bench"), from Old Italian banchetto, diminutive of banco "bench;" originally a snack eaten on a bench (rather than at table), hence "a slight repast between meals;" the meaning has entirely reversed. As a verb from 1510s.
- As in dine : verb eat, often formally
- As in eat : verb consume food
- As in feast : verb eat a great amount or very well
- As in feed : verb give nourishment; augment
- Into a great hall where Charlemagne and his lords were banqueting Roland strayed.
- Extract from : « A Book of Myths » by Jean Lang
- This new Banqueting House was completed in the early part of 1608.
- Extract from : « Shakespearean Playhouses » by Joseph Quincy Adams
- They kept up their banqueting a week after the banquet was over.
- Extract from : « Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales » by Robert L. Taylor
- "But they cannot enter the banqueting hall in such garbs," said the butler.
- Extract from : « Ting-a-ling » by Frank Richard Stockton
- The fourth side of the sarcophagus presents us with a banqueting scene.
- Extract from : « History of Phoenicia » by George Rawlinson
- On the longer sides are a hunting scene, and a banqueting scene.
- Extract from : « History of Phoenicia » by George Rawlinson
- That depends, dear boy, on whether we are frugal, or go on banqueting and gorging.
- Extract from : « To Win or to Die » by George Manville Fenn
- In the meantime, like Lady Macbeth herself, we must attend to the banqueting.
- Extract from : « The Prime Minister » by Anthony Trollope
- We may fancy all the time that we are banqueting on a magnificent sturgeon.
- Extract from : « Hendricks the Hunter » by W.H.G. Kingston
- Then everyone goes to a banqueting hall, which is also partly a church.
- Extract from : « The Smart Set » by Clyde Fitch
Antonyms for banqueting
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