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festival

Pronunciation:  'festuvul

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Matching Terms:  festival of lights, festivals, religious

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival"
  2. [n]  a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
 
 Synonyms: fete
 
 See Also: Bacchanalia, carnival, celebration, church festival, Dionysia, eisteddfod, festivity, film festival, jazz festival, Kwanza, Kwanzaa, period, period of time, religious festival, Saturnalia, sheepshearing, time period

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Fes"ti*val\, a. [OF. festival, fr. L. festivum festive
jollity, fr. festivus festive, gay. See {Festive}.]
Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a
festival; joyous; mirthful.

      I cannot woo in festival terms.          --Shak.

 
Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Dreaming that you are at festival means indifference to the cold realities of life and you are acting to old before you time. You will never want, but will be largely dependent on others.
 
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 Related Terms: anniversary, banquet, birthday, blowout, carnival, celebration, commemoration, do, entertainment, fair, feast, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, gala, gala affair, gala day, great doings, high jinks, holiday, holy day, jamboree, kermis, Mardi Gras, party, picnic, red-letter day, Saturnalia, waygoose, wayzgoose
 

 

 

 

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