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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfiːst/, [ˈfɪi̯st]
- Rhymes: -iːst
- Hyphenation: feast
Etymology 1
From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest.
Displaced native Old English bēorsċipe (literally “state of drinking beer”), ealu (“feast (in compounds)”, literally “ale”), and wīnhāte (literally “invitation to drink wine”), notably all alluding to alcohol.
Noun
feast (plural feasts)
- A holiday, festival, especially a religious one.
- Hyponyms: saint's day, holy day, high tide
- A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
- Synonym: banquet
We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
- (figurative) Something delightful and satisfying.
It was a feast for the eyes.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 113, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish):Lenin took the view, which is still treated as a a dogma by the Communist movement, that revisionism came into being as an ideology reflecting the interests of the aristocracy of the working class, whom the bourgeoisie permitted to enjoy the 'left-overs' of their feast of prosperity.
Derived terms
Translations
large, often ceremonial meal
- Afrikaans: feesmaal
- Aghwan: 𐕌𐕞𐕡𐕇𐔴𐕎 (müwx̣en)
- Albanian: gosti (sq) f
- Arabic: وَلِيمَة (ar) f (walīma), مَأْدُبَة f (maʔduba)
- Armenian: խնջույք (hy) (xnǰuykʻ), քեֆ (hy) (kʻef)
- Aromanian: uspets n, uspetsu
- Assamese: ভোজ (bhüz)
- Azerbaijani: ziyafət (az)
- Belarusian: пір m (pir), засто́лле n (zastóllje)
- Bengali: ভোজ (bn) (bhōj)
- Bhojpuri: भोज (bhōj)
- Bulgarian: пир (bg) m (pir), пи́ршество (bg) n (píršestvo), угощение (bg) n (ugoštenie)
- Burmese: စားပွဲ (my) (ca:pwai:)
- Catalan: festí m, banquet (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 盛宴 (zh) (shèngyàn), 筵席 (zh) (yánxí), 宴會 / 宴会 (zh) (yànhuì)
- Chuukese: kametip
- Czech: hostina (cs) f
- Danish: festmåltid n
- Dutch: feestmaaltijd (nl) n
- Esperanto: festeno (eo), bankedo
- Finnish: pidot (fi) pl, syömingit pl, kestit (fi) pl, juhlat (fi) pl
- French: festin (fr) m, banquet (fr) m
- Middle French: feste f
- Old French: feste f
- Friulian: fieste f
- Galician: gallofa f, convite m, banquete (gl) m, corme m
- Georgian: სუფრა (ka) (supra), სერი (ka) (seri), ლხინი (lxini), ნადიმი (nadimi)
- German: Festmahl (de) n, Festessen (de) n, Gastmahl (de) n
- Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (dauhts), 𐌳𐌿𐌻𐌸𐍃 f (dulþs)
- Greek: γιορτή (el) f (giortí), πανηγύρι (el) n (panigýri), ευωχία (el) f (evochía)
- Ancient Greek: ἑορτή f (heortḗ), θοίνη f (thoínē), δαίς f (daís)
- Hebrew: אֲרוּחָה (he) f (arukhá), סְעוּדָה (he) f (seudá) (formally, literally)
- Hindi: भोज (hi) m (bhoj), दावत (hi) f (dāvat)
- Hungarian: lakoma (hu)
- Icelandic: veisla (is) f
- Indonesian: pesta (id)
- Ingrian: pito
- Irish: fleá f, cóisir f
- Italian: festa (it) f, banchetto (it) m
- Japanese: 饗宴 (ja) (きょうえん, kyōen), 祝宴 (ja) (しゅくえん, shukuen), ごちそう (ja) (gochisō) (treat)
- Kazakh: той (toy)
- Khmer: បណីតាហារ (km) (paʼnəytaahaa)
- Korean: 연회(宴會) (ko) (yeonhoe)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: ziyafet (ku), çeşn (ku), bezm (ku)
- Kyrgyz: той (ky) (toy)
- Ladino: fiesta f, pranso m
- Lao: ງານລ້ຽງ (ngān līang), ຊຸມເຂົ້າ (sum khao)
- Latin: epulum n, daps f, festum n, convīvium n
- Lushootseed: sʔuʔəɬadəp, sʔəɬədalikʷ
- Macedonian: гозба f (gozba), пир m (pir)
- Malay: pesta, jamuan (ms), kenduri (ms)
- Maltese: festa
- Manchu: ᠰᠠᡵᡳᠨ (sarin)
- Māori: hākari, haukai, whakatihi, kaihaukai
- Meru: kiatho
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: найр (mn) (nair)
- Norman: r'pas rouoya m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: etegilde n
- Oromo: nyaachisa
- Pashto: بزم (ps) m (bazm), جشن (ps) m (ǰašᶕn)
- Persian: جشن (fa) (jašn), ضیافت (fa) (ziyâfat), بزم (fa) (bazm)
- Pohnpeian: kamadipw
- Polish: uczta (pl) f, biesiada (pl) f
- Portuguese: banquete (pt)
- Rapa Nui: koro, ŋoŋoro
- Romanian: banchet (ro) n, festin (ro) n, ospăț (ro) n, zaiafet (ro) n
- Russian: пир (ru) m (pir), пи́ршество (ru) n (píršestvo), банке́т (ru) m (bankét), засто́лье (ru) n (zastólʹje)
- Sanskrit: प्सरस् (sa) n (psaras)
- Scottish Gaelic: fèill f, cuirm f, fèist f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гозба f, пир m
- Latin: gozba (sh) f, pir (sh) m
- Slovak: hostina (sk) f
- Slovene: pojedina f
- Southern Altai: той (toy)
- Spanish: festín (es), comilona (es) f, ágape (es) m, banquete (es) m, convite (es) m, comelona (es) f, comilitona f, almorzada (es) f, hartadera f, tragantona (es) f, troleada (es) f, calderada (es) f (colloquial)
- Swahili: karamu (sw)
- Swedish: fest (sv) c, festmåltid (sv) c
- Tajik: ҷашн (tg) (jašn), зиёфат (ziyofat), базм (bazm)
- Tamil: விருந்து (ta) (viruntu)
- Telugu: విందు (te) (vindu)
- Thai: งานฉลอง (ngaan-chà-lɔ̌ɔng)
- Turkish: şölen (tr), toy (tr), ziyafet (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: طوی (toy, doy), ضیافت (ziyafet)
- Udi: мугин (mugin)
- Ukrainian: бенке́т (uk) m (benkét), пир m (pyr), засті́лля n (zastíllja)
- Ulithian: guubbul
- Urdu: دعوت f (da'vat), ضیافت f (ziyāfat)
- Uyghur: زىياپەت (ziyapet)
- Uzbek: bazm (uz), ziyofat (uz), toʻy (uz)
- Vietnamese: tiệc lớn, yến tiệc (vi)
- Welsh: gŵyl (cy) f
- Yup'ik: nerevkarin
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festival, holiday, solemn, or more commonly, joyous, anniversary Translations to be checked Etymology 2
From Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester, from Medieval Latin festāre, from the noun. See above.
Verb
feast (third-person singular simple present feasts, present participle feasting, simple past and past participle feasted)
- (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.
I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
- (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
- (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:He that shall see this day, and live old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors
And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”
1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume II (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:His ancestor, he said, had been feasted there, when he went forward with the then Lord Ravenswood to the fatal battle of Flodden, in which they both fell.
We feasted them after the victory.
- (transitive, obsolete) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
- 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.
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to hold a feast in honor of someone Anagrams
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