Quick Definition
a drinking, carousing
Strong's Definition
a drinking-bout or carousal
Derivation: from the alternate of G4095 (πίνω);
KJV Usage: banqueting
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πότος, πότου, ὁ (ΠΟΩ (cf. πίνω)), a drinking, carousing: 1Pe_4:3. (Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Josephus, Plutarch, Aelian, others; the Sept. for ξΔωΐΡϊΖΜδ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πότος potos 1x
a drinking; a drinking together, drinking bout, 1Pe_4:3
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πότος , -ου , ὁ
( <πίνω ),
[in LXX chiefly for H4960 ;]
a drinking bout, carousal: 1Pe_4:3 .†
SYN.: see κραιπάλη G2897 .
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πότος [page 531]
πότος occurs in 1Pe_4:3 = a drinking bout : cf. the meaning banquet in Gen_19:3 al. and Aristeas 262. For the corresponding adj. used as a subst. in a more general sense, see PSI I. 64 .21 (i/B.C.?), where a woman comes under a solemn promise not to administer philtres to her husband, nor to put anything hurtful μήτε ἐν ποτοῖς μήτε ἐν βρωτοῖς . Cf. also P Oxy XIV. 1673 .12 (ii/A.D.) ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἐνκλισθέντων εὖρον ἐκ [τ ]ῆς ᾱ λη (νοῦ ) ποτὴ (ν ) ᾱ , of what was stored I found of the first vat 1 drinkable (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
πότος πότος, ὁ, [Etym: ΠΟ, Root of some tenses of πίνω.] "drinking, a drinking-bout, carousal", Xen. ; παρὰ πότον, Lat. inter pocula, id=Xen. ; ἐν τοῖς πότοις Aeschin.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
πότος, -ου, ὁ
(πίνω), [in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁתֶּה ;]
a drinking bout, carousal: 1Pe.4:3.†
SYN.: see: κραιπάλη (AS)