Word: Buffet
How to pronounce: ˈbʌfɪt
Noun
Definitions:
1. A meal consisting of several dishes from which guests serve themselves.
Example sentences: "A cold buffet lunch"
2. A room or counter in a station, hotel, or other public building selling light meals or snacks.
Example sentences: "There's no dining car, which adds a bit of adventure - you have to judge your stops and make dashes for the station buffet."
3. A cabinet with shelves and drawers for keeping dinnerware and table linens; a sideboard.
Example sentences: "Ben moved to the buffet and withdrew several linen napkins."
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. (especially of wind or waves) strike repeatedly and violently; batter.
Example sentences: "The rough seas buffeted the coast"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A blow, typically of the hand or fist.
Example sentences: "Soothly, as he followed after me, I had a mind to turn about and deal him a buffet on the face, to see if I could but draw one angry word from him."
2. Another term for buffeting
Example sentences: "Fifteen degrees of flap induce marked buffet"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A low stool or hassock.
Synonyms:
smorgasbord
lounge
cupboard
kitchen cupboard
lunch counter
cantina
refreshment
sideboard
canteen
refreshment room
lunchroom
whack
punch
hammer
bash
bang
hit
beat
stroke
lash
Derivations:
buffeted
buffeting
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Buffet in Other Languages...
Spanish: Bufé
German: Buffet
French: Gifle
Italian: Buffet
Turkish: Büfe
