Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: banquet
IPA transcription: [b'æŋkwət]
Pronunciations of banquet
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: banquet, feast
    Meaning: a ceremonial dinner party for many people
Usage examples
  • Be glad at banquet, warrior worthy!
  • Lustily took he banquet and beaker, battle-famed king.
  • Boris, too, with his friend Zhilinski, came to see the Preobrazhensk banquet.
  • Washington contemplated the banquet, and wondered if he were in his right mind.
  • An attack of hysteria which broke out at a banquet and became epidemic in the newspapers.
  • A public banquet was given him in Edinburgh, and he was much sought after and entertained.
  • He could not imagine a fiery-tempered personage like the mink tamely submitting to the rape of his banquet.
  • A great banquet of farewell was given to him in New York and he returned to England bearing the admiration and love of the whole American people.
  • Then laughed his heart; for the monster was minded, ere morn should dawn, savage, to sever the soul of each, life from body, since lusty banquet waited his will!
  • When, upon the occasion of the public adoption of his son, Xuthus gave a grand banquet, the old servant of Creusa contrived to mix a strong poison in the wine of the unsuspecting Ion.
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