Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A feast given by an employer to those whom he employs.
  • noun A social festival originally observed in France, and afterward in Germany and England, on the evening before Twelfth day, or, as the Germans call it, Three Kings' day.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (British) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chiefly UK A dinner party given to the employees of a firm.
  • noun chiefly UK Any similar social occasion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees

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  • There's a beanfeast in a package of Beano's.

    (Irish candy commercial in the 1960's)

    July 5, 2008

  • See also beanfeastish, beanfeastishness, and beanfeastishnesses.

    July 5, 2008

  • The suffering drones who are seen least

    Will say that their boss is a mean beast

    But turns a fine fellow

    When workers grow mellow

    At the annual company beanfeast.

    January 5, 2019