Pronounced /bʌfeɪ, AM bʊfeɪ/ for meanings 1 to 3, and /bʌfɪt/ for meanings 4 and 5.
( buffeted)
1.
A buffet is a meal of cold food that is displayed on a long table at a party or public occasion. Guests usually serve themselves from the table.
...a buffet lunch...
N-COUNT : oft N n
2.
A buffet is a café, usually in a hotel or station.
We sat in the station buffet sipping tea.
N-COUNT : oft n N
3.
On a train, the buffet or the buffet car is the carriage or car where meals and snacks are sold. ( BRIT; in AM, use dining car )
N-COUNT : usu sing
4.
If something is buffeted by strong winds or by stormy seas, it is repeatedly struck or blown around by them.
Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms...
Storms swept the country, closing roads, buffeting ferries and killing as many as 30 people.
VERB : be V-ed , V n
• buf‧fet‧ing
(buffetings)
...the buffetings of the winds.
N-COUNT
5.
If an economy or government is buffeted by difficult or unpleasant situations, it experiences many of them.
The whole of Africa had been buffeted by social and political upheavals.
VERB : be V-ed