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smor·gas·bord    Audio Help   [smawr-guhs-bawrd, -bohrd or, often, shmawr-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, salads, casserole dishes, meats, cheeses, etc.
2.an extensive array or variety: The company has a smorgasbord of employee benefits.
Also, smör·gås·bord    Audio Help   [Sw. smɶr-gaws-boord] Pronunciation Key.


[Origin: 1915–20; < Sw smörgsbord, equiv. to smörgs sandwich + bord table]
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smor·gas·bord    Audio Help   (smôr'gəs-bôrd', -bōrd')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A buffet meal featuring a varied number of dishes.
  2. A varied collection: "a smorgasbord of fashionable paranormal beliefs" (Martin Gardner).


[Swedish smörgåsbord : smörgås, bread and butter (smör, butter from Old Norse + Swedish dialectal gås, lump of butter from Old Norse gās, goose; see gosling) + bord, table (from Old Norse bordh).]

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smorgasbord 
1893, from Swed. smörgåsbord "open sandwich table," lit. "butter-goose table," from smörgås, which is said to mean "bread and butter," but is compounded from smör "butter" (related to smear) and gås, lit. "goose" (and from the root of Eng. goose), which is said to have a secondary meaning of "a clump(of butter)." The final element is bord "table" (cf. board (n.1)). Fig. sense of "medley, miscellany" is recorded from 1948.

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smorgasbord

noun
1. a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" 
2. 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 

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