festival
IPA: fˈɛstʌvʌɫ
noun
- (biblical) A feast or feast day.
- An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
- In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
- (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.
adjective
- Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
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Examples of "festival" in Sentences
- One of the highlights of the festival is a dinner with a deadly difference.
- If we assign three weeks to each festival -- including the time spent on the journeys, and the delays before and after the celebration, together with the _festival week_, it will be a small allowance for the cessation of their regular labor.
- If we assign three weeks to each festival -- including the time spent on the journey going and returning, and the delays before and after the celebration, together with the _festival week_; it will be a small allowance for the cessation of their regular labor.
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