Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A guest at a banquet; a feaster.
  • noun One who provides feasts or rich entertainments.

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  • noun A guest at a banquet.

Etymologies

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From banquet + -er.

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Examples

  • There's another funerary mural with another deceased banqueter holding an egg, this time solitary.

    What are Etruscans doing with those eggs? 2008

  • And indeed, these royal cup-bearers are neat-handed at their task, mixing the bowl with infinite elegance, and pouring the wine into the beakers without spilling a drop, and when they hand the goblet they poise it deftly between thumb and finger for the banqueter to take.

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • The glasses were emptied and a shout of applause rang from every banqueter save one.

    The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Thomas Dixon 1905

  • The men regard the newcomer with that look which is given to an uninvited banqueter whose appearance is not imposing.

    David Lockwin—The People's Idol John McGovern 1883

  • "'Scuse me!" says a thick-voiced banqueter in the hall.

    David Lockwin—The People's Idol John McGovern 1883

  • She requires for each banqueter three or four items, which include the Measuring-worms, or Loopers, and the caterpillars of ordinary Moths, all of which are equally appreciated.

    More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • Nor was Stubb the only banqueter on whale's flesh that night.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Nor was Stubb the only banqueter on whale's flesh that night.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Nor was Stubb the only banqueter on whale's flesh that night.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • To us it seems very strange how a man, when he is actually a banqueter, and at the instant of his communicating can be made in any other sort a banqueter than he is; for _quicquid est, dum est, non potest non esse_.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

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