festival

Speech parts

1. festival - Noun

2. festival - Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fete jubilee fiesta carnival gala holiday celebration commemoration festivity merrymaking public holiday festivities religious festival passover bazaar
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Antonyms

lamentation famine crying weeping lament desolation
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Hypernyms

period celebration festivity period of time time period

Hyponyms

saturnalia Oktoberfest carnival bacchanalia Kwanzaa eisteddfod

Phrases with the word

Festival of Lights Music Festival Spring Festival Festival of Weeks Magpie Festival Dumpling Festival

Examples

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Germaine Greer

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Ambrose Bierce

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper. Björk

If there is only one earring among seven daughters, there will always be a quarrel on festival days. Tibetan Proverb

Every saint has his festival. Italian Proverb

An obstinete child does not suffer save on the day of festival. Swahili Proverb

Close letter words and terms

festination Festingerian festino festival international de louisiane festival of christmas festival of harvest