festival
festival
Definition
fes·ti·val (fes′tə vəl)
noun
- a time or day of feasting or celebration; esp., a periodic religious celebration
- a celebration, entertainment, or series of performances of a certain kind, often held periodically a Bach festival
- merrymaking; festivity
Etymology: ME, n. & adj. < OFr < ML festivalis < L festivus: see festive
adjective
of, for, or fit for a festival
festival
Synonyms
festival
n.
festival
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
Converse of object
- celebrate: After lunch we celebrated the festival of the Nile.
- organize: Which is why I don't organize a festival here.
Adjective modifier
- annual: On the 1st of July, I'll be combining a ten mile walk around Gosport with the annual free music festival.
- religious: There is always something going on whether it be a religious festival or a political rally.
- three-day: A three-day sailing festival is the warm-up to three days of racing action.
- Celtic: The Pope hoped to replace the pagan Celtic festival with a church-sponsored holiday.
- literary: Unlike any other literary festival in the UK, Fresh Fiction is focused entirely on new books by first-time novelists.
- week-long: The week-long festival provides an extensive program of readings from June 11 to 15.
Modifies a noun
- goer: Wash Away Those Sins Against Nature In a quiet corner of the Green Fields festival goers are being invited to confess their ecological sins.
- organizer: Festival organizers have confirmed England's quarter final clash with Portugal will be screened on the festival site on Thursday night.
- circuit: As usual Dylan plays the summer festival circuit mixed with a number of regular shows, this time starting in Oslo, Norway.
- screenings: Festival screenings include: London, Chicago, Impakt Utrecht and EMAF, Osnabruck.
- appearance: I'm looking forward to his V festival appearance.
Noun used with modifier
- harvest: This feast, with its offerings, was also the nation's harvest festival.
- beer: Q: can the Branch help me organize a beer festival?
- film: The film was well received at the Cannes film festival where Richard Harris won the best actor award.
- jazz: The house is located in a small hamlet close to the town of Marciac, famous for its international jazz festival.
- folk: This time we were off to the Trowbridge folk festival.
- pagan: But that does not make lent or Easter into a pagan festival today.
festival Quotes
Death is the supreme Festival on the road to freedom.
We had won I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year. Something like a festival.
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