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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

See also: festival

German

Noun

Festival n ‎(genitive Festivals, plural Festivals)

festival

Declension

Declension of Festival

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Festival	die	Festivals
genitive	eines	des	Festivals	der	Festivals
dative	einem	dem	Festival	den	Festivals
accusative	ein	das	Festival	die	Festivals

Synonyms

Festspiele

festival

See also: Festival

English

Adjective

festival ‎(comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

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)

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

Related terms

Translations

celebration

Afrikaans: fees
Albanian: festival (sq) m, festë (sq) f
Arabic: عِيد m ‎(ʿīd)
Armenian: տոն (hy) ‎(ton), փառատոն (hy) ‎(pʿaṙaton)
Azeri: festival, bayram (az)
Bashkir: байрам ‎(bayram)
Basque: jai
Belarusian: фестыва́ль m ‎(fjestyválʹ), свя́та n ‎(svjáta)
Bengali: উৎসব (bn) ‎(utsôb)
Bulgarian: пра́зненство (bg) n ‎(práznenstvo), фестива́л (bg) m ‎(festivál), пра́зник (bg) m ‎(práznik)
Burmese: ပွဲတော် (my) ‎(pwai:tau)
Chamicuro: meesa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 節慶 (zh), 节庆 (zh) ‎(jiéqìng), 節日 (zh), 节日 (zh) ‎(jiérì), 節 (zh), 节 (zh) ‎(jié), 會演 (zh), 会演 (zh) ‎(huìyǎn), 匯演 (zh), 汇演 (zh) ‎(huìyǎn)
Czech: festival, svátek (cs) m
Danish: festival c
Dutch: festival (nl) n, feest (nl) n
Esperanto: festivalo
Estonian: pidustused pl, festival (et)
Finnish: festivaali (fi)
French: festival (fr) m, fête (fr) f
Georgian: ფესტივალი ‎(pesṭivali)
German: Festival (de) n, Fest (de) n
Alemannic German: Fäscht n
Greek: φεστιβάλ (el) ‎(festivál)
Gujarati: ઓચ્છવ (gu) m ‎(occhav), મહોચ્છવ m ‎(mahocchav)
Hebrew:
Hindi: त्योहार (hi) m ‎(tyohār), उत्सव (hi) m ‎(utsav), पर्व (hi) m ‎(parva)
Hungarian: fesztivál (hu), ünnepség (hu)
Icelandic: hátíð (is) f
Ido: festivalo (io)
Indonesian: festival (id), pesta (id), perayaan (id)
Irish: fleá f
Italian: mostra (it), rassegna (it), festival (it)
Japanese: 祭り ‎(まつり, matsuri), 祭典 (ja) ‎(さいてん, saiten), 祝祭 (ja) ‎(しゅくさい, shukusai)
Kazakh: мейрам ‎(meyram), мереке (kk) ‎(mereke), фестиваль ‎(festïvalʹ)
Khmer: បុណ្យ (km) ‎(bon)
Korean: 축제 (ko) ‎(chukje) (祝祭 (ko))
Kyrgyz: майрам ‎(mayram), фестиваль (ky) ‎(festivalʹ)
Lao: ງັນ ‎(ngan), ງານ ‎(ngān), ມະຫະກຳ ‎(ma ha kam), ງານບຸນ ‎(ngān bun), ກອງບຸນ ‎(kǭng bun), ມື້ພັກ (lo) ‎(mư̄ phak)

Latin: feria, festum, festivitas f
Latvian: festivāls m, svētki
Lithuanian: festivalis m, šventė (lt) f
Lü:
Macedonian: фестивал m ‎(festival), празник m ‎(praznik)
Malay: perayaan, festival
Manx: ard-laa m
Maori: taiopenga, hui taurima
Mongolian: баяр ёслол ‎(bajar joslol)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: festival m

Nynorsk: festival m
Persian: جشنواره (fa) ‎(jašnvâre), فستیوال (fa) ‎(festivâl), عید (fa) ‎(eyd, id), جشن (fa) ‎(jašn)
Polish: festiwal (pl) m, święto (pl) n
Portuguese: festival (pt)
Quechua: raymi (qu)
Romanian: festival (ro) n
Russian: фестива́ль (ru) m ‎(festiválʹ), пра́здник (ru) m ‎(prázdnik), пра́зднество (ru) n ‎(prázdnestvo)
Sanskrit: महोत्सव (sa) m ‎(mahotsava)
Scottish Gaelic: féill f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: фестивал m, празник m

Roman: festival (sh) m, praznik (sh) m
Slovak: festival (sk) m, sviatok m
Slovene: festival (sl) m, praznik (sl) m
Spanish: festival m
Swahili: tamasha (sw)
Swedish: festival (sv) c
Tajik: ид (tg) ‎(id), фестивал ‎(festival), ҷашн (tg) ‎(jašn)
Tatar: бәйрәм (tt) ‎(bäyräm)
Telugu: పండుగ (te) ‎(paṃḍuga)
Thai: งานฉลอง ‎(ngaan chà-lŏng), มหกรรม ‎(má-hà-gam)
Tibetan: དུས་ཆེན ‎(dus chen)
Turkish: festival (tr), şenlik (tr), bayram (tr)
Turkmen: festiwal, baýram (tk)
Ukrainian: фестива́ль m ‎(festyválʹ), свя́то n ‎(svjáto)
Urdu:
Uzbek: festival (uz), bayram (uz)
Vietnamese: ngày hội, đại hội liên hoan, hội diễn (vi), lễ hội (vi)
Welsh: gŵyl (cy) m, f
Yiddish: יאָמטעוו ‎(yomtev)
Zhuang:

Catalan

Noun

festival m ‎(plural festivals)

festival

Czech

Noun

festival m

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)

festival

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɛs.ti.val/

Noun

festival m ‎(plural festivals)

festival

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English festival.

Noun

festival m ‎(invariable)

festival
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)

a festival

References

“festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

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

a festival

References

“festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From English festival.

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

festival

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìvāl m ‎(Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

festival

Declension

Declension of festival

	singular	plural
nominative	festìvāl	festivali
genitive	festivála	festivala
dative	festivalu	festivalima
accusative	festival	festivale
vocative	festivale	festivali
locative	festivalu	festivalima
instrumental	festivalom	festivalima

Spanish

Noun

festival m ‎(plural festivales)

festival

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from French festival.

Noun

festival ‎(definite accusative festivalı, plural festivallar)

festival

Synonyms

şenlik

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Webster 1913 Edition

Festival

Fes′ti-val

Webster 1828 Edition

Festival

FES'TIVAL

FES'TIVAL

Definition 2024

Festival

Festival

German

Noun

Declension

Synonyms

festival

festival

English

Adjective

Noun

Related terms

Translations

Catalan

Noun

Czech

Noun

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology

Noun

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Noun

Italian

Etymology

Noun

Synonyms

Related terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Noun

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Noun

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Noun

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

Declension

See also

Spanish

Noun

Turkish

Etymology

Noun

Synonyms

Etymology

Pronunciation

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