buffet
🇺🇸
/bəˈfeɪ/
🇬🇧
/ˈbʌfeɪ/
noun
R
A meal where people serve themselves from food on a table and eat standing or sitting elsewhere.
We enjoyed a delicious buffet at the party with many food choices.
R
A place like in a station where you can buy food and drinks to eat there or take away.
The train station has a small buffet where you can grab a quick snack.
R
The part of a train where you can buy food and drinks.
The buffet car on the train offers sandwiches and hot drinks.
R
A piece of dining room furniture for putting food on before serving, with drawers for storing cutlery.
The antique buffet in the dining room holds our silverware and dishes.
verb
R
To knock or push someone or something roughly from side to side.
Strong winds buffet the small boat during the storm.
translation
A meal where people serve themselves from food on a table and eat standing or sitting elsewhere.; A place like in a station where you can buy food and drinks to eat there or take away.; The part of a train where you can buy food and drinks.; A piece of dining room furniture for putting food on before serving, with drawers for storing cutlery.
To knock or push someone or something roughly from side to side.
Word Forms
3rd Present
buffets
Past
buffeted
Perfect
buffeted
Progressive
buffeting
Plural
buffets