English Dictionary

banquet

/ˈbæŋkwɪt/

verb

(intransitive) To participate in a banquet; to feast. / (obsolete) To have dessert after a feast. / (transitive) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

They banqueted all night to celebrate their victory.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To participate in a banquet; to feast.

I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast: / The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: / Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.

意味（2）

(obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.

Then was the banquetting chamber in the tilt yard at Greenewich, to the which place these strangers were conducted by the noblest personages in the court, where they did both sup and banquet.

意味（3）

(transitive) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

Not possible; for who shall bear your part / And be in Padua here Vincentio's son; / Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends, / Visit his countrymen, and banquet them?