buffet
85
2.3
- noun
- /bəˈfeɪ/
:
bufé
- Have you tried the breakfast buffet at the hotel? It has a variety of options.
- a buffet lunch
- a buffet breakfast
- eat at a buffet
It's it's like the all you can eat buffet at sushi.
- It's it's like the all you can eat buffet at sushi.
- Now you know this, Drew, I love a buffet, and I'll tell you why.
- That's going to the all you eat, can eat buffet and you know, binging too much, right?
- I mean, it's just a damn buffet and that's what you get over there.
- How in the world did I end up in a Chinese buffet?
- Tonight we are going to a Filipino food buffet.
- So it's a buffet, an international buffet.
Examples
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Eisenhower: Afterwards, we had that buffet supper at the Dorchester Hotel.
Fiction book (2001) -
Did you know we have an all-you-can-eat buffet by the pool?
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Yeah, we're back at the buffet for lunch.
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We're going to go to the buffet and we're late, so bye, bye, bye.
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You know, I go to the buffet now to get something to drink.
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Have you tried the breakfast buffet?
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We're standing in the buffet line, the glory of the world laid out before us.
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Would you like our reception to be buffet style or formal seating?
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The food wasn't terribly good, but it was a buffet, and all you could eat.
Fiction book (1992) -
Our Thursday Fun Night will be a scrumptious colonial-style buffet dinner in an outside enclosed courtyard.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
20
2.5
A large meal with many different dishes
3
7.2
A meal where people serve themselves many hot and cold dishes
Compounds
3
1.6
A morning meal where you serve yourself from many foods like eggs, bread and fruit
How Self-Serve
85
2.3
300
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Buffet for a self-serve meal comes from the same French buffet 'side table' where food was put out for people to serve themselves. So a buffet is a meal with many dishes that guests can help themselves to.