buffet
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$ \mathrm{buffet}^1 /ˈbʌfeɪ/, /ˈbʊfeɪ/
noun
1 ​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)
A finger buffet will be served.
Breakfast is served buffet style.
The running buffet is available from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
TOPICS Cooking and eating C1
Collocations
adjective
free, all-you-can-eat, delicious
verb + buffet
serve, lay out
buffet + noun
breakfast, dinner, lunch
2 ​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 away
TOPICS Cooking and eating C1
Collocations
adjective
station
buffet + noun
car, service
3 ​(also buffet car) (British English) the part of a train where you can buy something to eat and drink
4 ​(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 Origin
early 18th cent. (denoting a sideboard): from French, from Old French bufet ‘stool’, of unknown origin.
$ \mathrm{buffet}^2 /ˈbʌfɪt/
verb (buffets, buffeted, buffeting)
often passive
​buffet somebody/something to knock or push somebody/something roughly from side to side
to be buffeted by the wind
(figurative, formal) The nation had been buffeted by a wave of strikes.
Word Origin
Middle English: from Old French buffeter (verb), buffet (noun), diminutive of bufe ‘blow’.