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banqueteer en · NOUN

Etymology

From banquet + -eer.

Meanings

1. One who attends a banquet.
   • The dinner and the soiree too were done, The supper too discuss’d, the dames admired, The banqueteers had dropp’d off one by one— The song was silent, and the dance expired: 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XVI:
   • The banqueteers forsook their scented alcoves, and men of all stations withdrew from the outlying sectors […] 1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 101, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
   • After a trumpet had given the starting sign each banqueteer tried to empty his jug as fast as possible, which must have been quite a feat, since a jug contained about three liters of wine! 1983, Jan N. Bremmer, The Early Greek Concept of the Soul, Princeton University Press, page 112:

Forms

Synonyms

feaster · banqueter · banquetgoer

Translations (6)

pl biesiadniczka (Translations) · pl bankietowiczka (Translations) · ota ضیافتجی (Translations) · pl bankietowicz (Translations) · tr ziyafetçi (Translations) · pl biesiadnik (Translations)

banqueteer en · VERB

Etymology

From banquet + -eer.

Meanings

1. To attend a banquet or banquets (particularly as a frequent or habitual activity).
   • I had been banqueteering and making speeches two or three times in every week for six months […] 1907, Mark Twain, edited by Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 3, Oakland: University of California Press, published 2015, page 189:

Forms

Deriveds

banqueteering