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Webster 1913 Edition


Festival

Fes′ti-val

,
Adj.
[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.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Festival

FES'TIVAL

,
Adj.
[L. festivus, from festus, or festum or fasti. See Feast.]
Pertaining to a feast; joyous; mirthful; as a festival entertainment.

FES'TIVAL

,
Noun.
The time of feasting; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.
The morning trumpets festival proclaimed.

Definition 2024


Festival

Festival

See also: festival

German

Noun

Festival n (genitive Festivals, plural Festivals)

  1. festival

Declension

Synonyms

festival

festival

See also: Festival

English

Adjective

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

  1. Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
      the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

Noun

festival (plural festivals)

  1. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
  2. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

Related terms

Translations


Catalan

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

  1. festival

Czech

Noun

festival m

  1. festival (an event or community gathering)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

Etymology

From Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (festive).

Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

  1. festival

Derived terms


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛs.ti.val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

  1. festival

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English festival.

Noun

festival m (invariable)

  1. festival
  2. worker's festival

Synonyms

Related terms

  • festivaliere
  • festivaliero

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)

  1. a festival

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)

  1. a festival

References


Portuguese

Etymology

From English festival.

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

  1. festival

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

  1. festival

Declension

See also


Spanish

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

  1. festival

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from French festival.

Noun

festival (definite accusative festivalı, plural festivallar)

  1. festival

Synonyms

  • şenlik