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banqueteer

banqueteer noun: one who attends a banquet.

Noun

banqueteer (plural banqueteers)

  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

Verb

banqueteer (third-person singular simple present banqueteers, present participle banqueteering, simple past and past participle banqueteered)

  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

Synonyms of banqueteer

Forms of banqueteer

Noun
pluralbanqueteers
Verb
third-person singular presentbanqueteers
present participlebanqueteering
past participlebanqueteered
pastbanqueteered

Origin of banqueteer

From banquet + -eer.

Words formed from banqueteer

Questions about banqueteer

What does banqueteer mean?
Banqueteer means one who attends a banquet.
What part of speech is banqueteer?
Banqueteer can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of banqueteer?
The plural of banqueteer is banqueteers.

Words near banqueteer in the dictionary

  1. banquet roll
  2. banquet rolls
  3. banquet trolley
  4. banquet trolleys
  5. banqueted
  6. banqueteer
  7. banqueteered
  8. banqueteering
  9. banqueteers
  10. banqueter
  11. banqueters

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