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Definition of Festival

1. Noun. A day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration.

2. Noun. An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place). "A drama festival"

Definition of Festival

1. a. Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

2. n. A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.

Definition of Festival

1. Adjective. Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.) ¹

2. Noun. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community. ¹

3. Noun. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Festival

1. a day or time of celebration [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Festival

festered festering festeringly festerment festerments festers festinant festinate festinated festinately

festinates festinating festinating gait festination festinations festival (current term) festivalgoer festivalgoers festivalist festivalists

festivals festive festive season festively festiveness festivenesses festivities festivity festivous festlich

Literary usage of Festival

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

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Antal Dorati, began a new series of concerts in the festival Hall. 10. The opening of trie Royal Philharmonic Society's ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"27 gives an account of a festival analogous to the feast of booths. ... The new moon festival probably arose under nomadic conditions, in spite of the ..."

3. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"In the summer of 479 BC, the Spartans were tardy in bringing out their military force for the defence of Attica—being engaged in that festival. ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"The festival, fol. cxxiii. verso. Rather. “Of the rather people. ... The festival, foL clxxxix. recto. Stickle. This word seems to mean “to encourage, ..."

5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"On May 27—28, 1907, almost three months earlier than the Talun festival, ... The festival was held three days before the expected sprouting of the rice in ..."

6. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"The festival is attended with kissing and other games. On the wedding day these garlands are thrown around among the guests. Panagia. ..."

7. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"This is the festival of Thor, of Baldur and of Prometheus. ... This is the festival of the sun-god, and as such let its observance be universal. ..."

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