buffet
A buffet is a piece of furniture where you store dishes and serving plates.
(noun)An example of a buffet is the large cabinet in the dining room.
The definition of a buffet is a style of dining where prepared food is on display for you to take what you’d like.
(noun)An example of a buffet is a Chinese food restaurant with an all you can eat special.
Buffet is defined as a hit with the hand.
(noun)An example of a buffet is a punch.
To buffet is defined as to hit repeatedly.
(verb)An example of to buffet is an exchange of punches in a school fight.
See buffet in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a blow with the hand or fist
- any blow or shock: the buffets of fate
Origin: ME < OFr, dim. of buffe, a blow: prob. echoic
transitive verb
- to hit with the hand or fist; punch; slap
- to beat back as by repeated blows: the waves buffeted the boat
- to struggle against
intransitive verb
noun
- a piece of furniture with drawers and cupboards for dishes, table linen, silver, etc.; sideboard
- a counter or table where refreshments are served
- a restaurant with such a counter or table
- a meal at which guests serve themselves from a buffet or table
Origin: Fr < OFr, bench (> ME, stool)
See buffet in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A large sideboard with drawers and cupboards.
- a. A counter or table from which meals or refreshments are served.b. A restaurant having such a counter.
- A meal at which guests serve themselves from various dishes displayed on a table or sideboard.
Origin:
Origin: French
.noun
- To hit or beat, especially repeatedly.
- To strike against forcefully; batter: winds that buffeted the tent. See Synonyms at beat.
- To drive or force with or as if with repeated blows: was buffeted about from job to job by the vagaries of the economy.
- To force (one's way) with difficulty.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French buffet
Origin: , diminutive of buffe, blow
.Related Forms:
- bufˈfet·er noun
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