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Definition of Feast day
1. Noun. A day designated for feasting.
Group relationships: Church Festival, Religious Festival
Specialized synonyms: Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, Rosh Hashanah, Rosh Hashona, Rosh Hashonah, Movable Feast, Moveable Feast, Circumcision, Feast Of The Circumcision, January 1, Christmas, Christmas Day, Dec 25, Xmas, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, Id Al-fitr, Feast Of Sacrifice, Id Al-adha
Generic synonyms: Holiday
Definition of Feast day
1. Noun. a day allocated to a particular saint. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feast Day
Literary usage of Feast day
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... that for a redeemed Christian every day was a feast-day. At the same time,
the need of common 1. Sunday devotional festivals in which all could and take ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He not only preached, as required, every Sunday and feast day in the cathedral,
and even daily during fasts, but also, on special occasions, ..."
3. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico by John Russell Bartlett (1854)
"... found—Reach Saltillo—No work on a feast day—Fine church—Cotton factories—Dr.
Hewison—Economical use of water. November 28th to December 1st. ..."
4. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"Of Pilate one could rest assured that even on the feast-day he would not hesitate
to repress any tumult. If he desecrated the day by an execution, ..."
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