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Definition of Religious festival
1. Noun. A festival having religious significance.
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
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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