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festival

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fes·ti·val  (fst-vl)
n.
1. An occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals.
2. An often regularly recurring program of cultural performances, exhibitions, or competitions: a film festival.
3. Revelry; conviviality.
adj.
Of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival; festive.

[From Middle English, festive, from Old French, from Medieval Latin fstivlis, from Latin fstvus, from fstus; see dhs- in Indo-European roots.]

festival
Noun
1. an organized series of special events and performances: the Edinburgh Festival
2. a day or period set aside for celebration [Latin festivus joyful]

Festival a series of performances of music, plays, and dances—Wilkes.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.festivalfestival - a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
church festival, religious festival - a festival having religious significance
2.festival - an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival"
festivity, celebration - any joyous diversion
carnival - a festival marked by merrymaking and processions
Bacchanalia, Dionysia - an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)
eisteddfod - any of several annual Welsh festivals involving artistic competitions (especially in singing)
film festival - a cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year)
jazz festival - a festival that features performances by jazz artists
Kwanzaa, Kwanza - a festival featuring African-American culture; celebrated between Christmas and New Year
Oktoberfest - an autumn festival that involves merrymaking and drinking beer
Saturnalia - an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn
sheepshearing - a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared

festival
noun 2. holy day, holiday, feast, commemoration, feast day, red-letter day, saint's day, fiesta, fête, anniversary
Translations
Spanish festival [ˈfɛstɪvəl] n (REL) → fiesta;
(ART, MUS) → festival m

French festival [ˈfɛstɪvəl] n (Rel) → fête f;
(Art, Mus) → festival m

German festival [ˈfɛstɪvəl] nFest nt;
(Art, Mus) → Festival nt, Festspiele pl

Italian festival [ˈfɛstɪvəl] n (REL) → festa;
(ART, MUS) → festival m inv

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Yes, said Polemarchus, and not only so, but a festival will he celebrated at night, which you certainly ought to see.
Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion.
Dark crimson velvet, dark purple silk, and jet-black cloth, with linen of dazzling whiteness, composed the festive dress of the President, who marched at the head of his Committee carrying an enormous nosegay, like that which a hundred and twenty-one years later, Monsieur de Robespierre displayed at the festival of "The Supreme Being.
 
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