Definition of buffets Buffets
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What does buffets mean?
Part of speech
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| buffet - a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers | ||
| counter, sideboard | ||
| article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room" | ||
| dining-room, dining room a room used for dining | ||
| credenza, credence a kind of sideboard or buffet | ||
| drawer a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out | ||
| cellaret, minibar sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | ||
| buffet - a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves | ||
| repast, meal coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse | ||
| buffet - usually inexpensive bar | ||
| snack bar, snack counter | ||
| bar a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" | ||
| commissary a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) | ||
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| buffet - strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him" | ||
| buff | ||
| hit pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| buffet - strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" | ||
| knock about, batter | ||
| strike cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp; "strike an arc" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- buffet (Noun)
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought. - buffet (Noun)
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves. - buffet (Noun)
A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind. - buffet (Noun)
A low stool; a hassock. - buffet (Verb)
To strike or blow with a buffet or buffets.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- buffet (n.)
A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. - buffet (n.)
A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering. - buffet (v. i.)
A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. - buffet (v. i.)
A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. - buffet (v. i.)
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. - buffet (v. t.)
To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. - buffet (v. t.)
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. - buffet (v. t.)
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper. - buffet (v. i.)
To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. - buffet (v. i.)
To make one's way by blows or struggling.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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buffet
A system of serving meals in which food is placed on a sideboard where the diners generally serve themselves.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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buffet
buf′et, n. a blow with the fist, a slap.—v.t. to strike with the hand or fist: to contend against.—n. Buff′eting, a striking with the hand, boxing: contention. [O. Fr. bufet—bufe, a blow, esp. on the cheek.] -
buffet
buf′et, n. a kind of sideboard: a low stool: a refreshment-bar (in this sense often pronounced buf'ā). [Fr. buffet; origin unknown.]
