Definition of Religious festival

1. Noun. A festival having religious significance.

Exact synonyms: Church Festival
Terms within: Feast Day, Fete Day
Specialized synonyms: Feast Of Booths, Feast Of Tabernacles, Succos, Succoth, Sukkoth, Tabernacles, Octave
Generic synonyms: Festival

Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Festival

religiophobe
religiophobes
religiophobia
religiophobic
religiopolitical
religiose
religiosities
religiosity
religious
religious-pluralism
religious belief
religious ceremony
religious cult
religious doctrine
religious education
religious festival (current term)
religious holiday
religious leader
religious movement
religious music
religious mystic
religious mysticism
religious naturalism
religious naturalist
religious naturalists
religious offering
religious order
religious orders
religious orientation
religious outcast

Literary usage of Religious festival

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1824)
"Benediction of the Waters of the Neva—Monastery of St, Alexander Nevsky—Religious Festival in honour of that ..."

2. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1824)
"Benediction of the Waters of the Neva—Monastery of St. Alexander Nevsky—Religious Festival in honour of that Saint—Tombs—Church of St. Nicholas—Glass-house ..."

3. The Baptist Missionary Magazine by Executive Committee, Baptist General Convention, American Baptist Missionary Union, Board of Managers (1845)
"I have taken him with me, hoping that a few years instruction and the grace of God will qualify him for great usefulness. A religious festival—Weak ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The result of these enactments is as follows : Through the twofold daily offering each day becomes a religious festival and to this daily offering the ..."

5. Central Asia and Tibet: Towards the Holy City of Lassa by Sven Hedin (1903)
"... Lama Attired tor a religious festival. fellows I swung away out of Leh, and, dipping below the hills, we soon left behind us the picturesque little town ..."

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