Buffet vs. Smorgasbord

Buffetnoun

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

Buffetnoun

Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

Buffetnoun

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

Buffetnoun

A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

Buffetnoun

A low stool; a hassock.

Buffetverb

(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

Buffetverb

to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

Buffetverb

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

Buffetverb

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Buffetnoun

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.

Buffetnoun

A counter for food or refreshments.

Buffetnoun

A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

Buffetnoun

A meal set out on a buffet[2], arranged so that guests may serve themselves and choose those items that they desire; as, a buffet dinner. Diners usually take a plate provided and move in a line past the items on the buffet[2], placing those items they desire on the plate, to be eaten at some convenient place.

Buffetnoun

A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.

Buffetnoun

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.

Buffetnoun

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

Buffetverb

To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.

Buffetverb

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

Buffetverb

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Buffetverb

To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.

Buffetverb

To make one's way by blows or struggling.

Buffetnoun

a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

Buffetnoun

a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves

Buffetnoun

usually inexpensive bar

Buffetverb

strike against forcefully;

Buffetverb

strike, beat repeatedly;

Buffet

A buffet can be either a sideboard (a flat-topped piece of furniture with cupboards and drawers, used for storing crockery, glasses, and table linen) or a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners serve themselves. A form of service à la française, buffets are offered at various places including hotels, restaurants, and many social events.

Smorgasbordnoun

A buffet with many small dishes.

Smorgasbordnoun

(figuratively) An abundant and diverse collection of things.

Smorgasbordnoun

a collection containing a variety of sorts of things;

Smorgasbordnoun

an assortment of foods starting with herring or smoked eel or salmon etc with bread and butter; then cheeses and eggs and pickled vegetables and aspics; finally hot foods; served as a buffet meal