0 a large formal meal for many people, often followed by speeches in honour of someone:
1 a large formal meal for many people, often followed by speeches in honor of someone:
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.
