noun
Meaning 1
A basket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
junket
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Pronunciation
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UK, US: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkɪt/
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noun
Meaning 2
A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds.
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noun
Meaning 3
A delicacy.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 4
A feast or banquet.
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noun
Meaning 5
A pleasure trip; a journey made for feasting or enjoyment, now especially a trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment.
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noun
Meaning 6
Ellipsis of press junket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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noun
Meaning 7
A gaming room for which the capacity and limits change daily, often rented out to private vendors who run tour groups through them and give a portion of the proceeds to the main casino.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: gambling, games
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verb
Meaning 8
To attend a junket; to feast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, intransitive
Examples
- 1688, Robert South, Sermon preached on 8 April, 1688, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. The Second Volume, London: Thomas Bennet, p. 414, Iob’s Children junketted and feasted together often, but the Reckoning cost them dear at last.
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verb
Meaning 9
To go on a junket; to travel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 10
To regale or entertain with a feast.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 11
a trip taken by an official at public expense
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: trip
noun
Meaning 12
a journey taken for pleasure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- many summer excursions to the shore
- it was merely a pleasure trip
- after cautious sashays into the field
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, outing, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: journey, journeying
Narrower terms: airing, field trip
noun
Meaning 13
dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dessert, sweet, afters
verb
Meaning 14
partake in a feast or banquet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: feast, banquet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eat
Narrower terms: wine and dine
verb
Meaning 15
provide a feast or banquet for
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: feast, banquet
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Broader terms: host
verb
Meaning 16
go on a pleasure trip
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: junketeer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, trip, jaunt
History
Etymology
From Middle English jonket (“basket made of rushes”), from Medieval Latin iuncta, possibly from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”) and therefore a possible doublet of jonquil. Meaning shifted to “feast or banquet” by 1520s, probably via the notion of a picnic basket. This in turn led to the sense of “pleasure trip” (1814), and then to specifically to “trip made ostensibly for business but which entails merrymaking or entertainment” by 1886 in American English.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: подсладена извара (podsladena izvara) — dessert
- Dutch: platte kaas — dessert
- French: caillé — dessert
- French: fromage blanc — dessert
- German: Quarkspeise — dessert
- German: Quark — dessert
- German: dicke Milch — dessert
- Latin: catillāmen — dessert
- Māori: waiū pupuru — dessert
- Bulgarian: гуляй (guljaj) — feast or banquet
- Bulgarian: веселба (veselba) — feast or banquet
- Czech: hostina — feast or banquet
- Dutch: feestmaal — feast or banquet
- Dutch: banket — feast or banquet
- French: fête — feast or banquet
- French: banquet — feast or banquet
- Georgian: ლხინი (lxini) — feast or banquet
- Georgian: ზეიმი (zeimi) — feast or banquet
- Georgian: სუფრა (supra) — feast or banquet
- Spanish: francachela — feast or banquet
- Swedish: fest — feast or banquet
- Swedish: kalas — feast or banquet
- Bulgarian: пикник (piknik) — pleasure trip
- Dutch: snoepreisje — pleasure trip
- Dutch: uitje — pleasure trip
- Finnish: huviretki — pleasure trip
- French: ballade — pleasure trip
- French: virée — pleasure trip
- French: excursion — pleasure trip
- French: troisième mi-temps — pleasure trip
- Italian: gita — pleasure trip
- Italian: passeggiata — pleasure trip
- Russian: приятная пое́здка (prijatnaja pojézdka) — pleasure trip
- Spanish: vuelta — pleasure trip
- Spanish: garbeo — pleasure trip
- Dutch: speelzaal — gaming room
- Dutch: goktent — gaming room
- Bulgarian: гуляя (guljaja) — to attend a junket
- Bulgarian: веселя се (veselja se) — to attend a junket
- French: festoyer — to attend a junket
- French: banqueter — to attend a junket