buffet1
noun/ˈbʌfeɪ/, /ˈbʊfeɪ/
/bəˈfeɪ/
- a meal at which people serve themselves from a table and then stand or sit somewhere else to eat
- a buffet lunch/supper
- Dinner will be a cold buffet, not a sit-down meal.
- a finger buffet (= food that you can eat with your hands, not with a knife and fork)
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatingc1- A finger buffet will be served.
- Breakfast is served buffet style.
- The running buffet is available from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- free
- all-you-can-eat
- delicious
- …
- serve
- lay out
- breakfast
- dinner
- lunch
- …
- a place, for example in a train or bus station, where you can buy food and drinks to eat or drink there, or to take awayTopics Cooking and eatingc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- station
- car
- service
- (also buffet car)(British English) the part of a train where you can buy something to eat and drinkOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- station
- car
- service
- (especially North American English) (also sideboard British and North American English)a piece of furniture in a dining room for putting food on before it is served, with drawers in it for storing knives, forks, etc.
Word Originearly 18th cent. (denoting a sideboard): from French, from Old French bufet ‘stool’, of unknown origin.
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