buffet

5 definitions • 4 examples

a meal where people serve themselves different types of food:

Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?

a restaurant in a station, where food and drinks can be bought and eaten

(of wind, rain, etc.) to hit something repeatedly and with great force:

The little boat was buffeted mercilessly by the waves.

a meal where people serve themselves food that is arranged on a table:

Will it be a buffet or a sit-down meal?

to hit something or someone repeatedly and, usually, hard:

Many fierce storms had buffeted the coast before, but this one was worse than usual.