Buffet

Quick meaning: Buffet is a noun meaning A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

Meaning

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

More Meanings

1. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
2. A small low stool; a hassock.
3. (countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
4. (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
5. (transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
6. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
7. (aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.

Example Sentences

On his cheek a buffet fell.

We'll be serving supper buffet style.

They spit in his face and buffeted him.

"We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe."

Word Forms

• buffets
• buffeting
• buffetting
• buffeted
• buffetted

Synonyms for buffet

Depending on context, synonyms include sideboard, smorgasbord, cupboard, blow, collision, cuff.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sideboard, buff, batter, counter, knock about, cafeteria.

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