banqueting
something that brings a lot of pleasure or benefit, often of a particular kind or for a particular type of person:
Her shows are banquets for the eyes and ears.
The Woodstock festival was a musical banquet for the age.
The performers lay out before us a banquet of delights.
The President's visit to the UK will include a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.
Truffles were served by the Egyptian pharaohs at their royal banquets.
They held a farewell banquet for him and toasted his health.
Books are a banquet for the mind.
The result of his actions was a banquet for lawyers.
The production team creates a brilliant visual banquet.
He secretly hoped the luncheon might develop into a banquet of deliciously bad behaviour.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Meals & parts of meals
accompaniment
afternoon tea
afters
amuse-bouche
antipasto
English breakfast
feast
feeding
finger buffet
finger food
plate meal
ploughman's lunch
postprandial
pot luck
power breakfast
tea
tea party
teatime
tiffin
TV dinner

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Celebrations, parties & special occasions
Causing pleasure

banquet | American Dictionary

banquet
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbæŋ·kwɪt/
a large formal meal for many people, often followed by speeches in honor of someone:
Ed Carey will receive the award at the organization’s annual banquet.

Examples of banquet

banquet
The atlas is not merely a treasure of geographical information but also a banquet for the eyes.
However, the food was delivered to the banquet by a catering service.
Now, for the first time, archaeologists were admitted to this banquet of the senses.
But for those who attended his performances, it was his communion with his listeners - in addition to socializing at banquets and picnics - which counted.
The nuns provided them with meals - sufficiently grand to be described as ' banquets ' - and, after dinner, male and female religious played cards and dice together.
To be invited to a banquet one must flatter the host, and so lose the liberty of expressing an honest judgement.
I have been to many conference banquets, but none has come close to this one.
People from the lower classes could expect money or invitations to banquets as their reward for participating in electoral campaigns.
She wanted some heads of the local club to participate in this banquet, but nobody accepted.
The conflicted meanings surface, for example, in the way the artist chose to depict the banquet as a single rather than a double event.
These groups usually gave regular concerts in their own right or other programmes in hotels or private banquets by request.
At a banquet, servants are shucking oysters as fast as they can be consumed.
However, because they took place at the private residence of the vassal, they were characteristic more of private banquets than official events.
There is a parallel here with the wife of the warrior family hosting a banquet in honour of its lord.
Frequently, people attended banquets and marches for opposing candidates.
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Collocations withbanquet

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annual banquet
I held out great hopes for the society's annualbanquet.
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