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festival

adj
/ˈfɛstɪvl̩/UK/ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/US

Etymology

From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive + -al. Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).

  1. derived from fēstīvus
  2. derived from fēstīvālis
  3. derived from festival
  4. inherited from festival

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a feast or feast day

    Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)

    • the temple of the Gods […] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort […]

  2. A feast or feast day.

    • All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

  3. An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some…

    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.

    • The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.
    • A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

    2. Fried cornbread.

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Derived

Bon Festival, Car Festival, Chung Yueng Festival, Da Jiu Festival, Double Fifth Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Double Seventh Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dumpling Festival, festie, festivalgoer, festivalist, festivalization, festivalize, festivally, Festival of Light, Festival of Lights, Festival of the Rosary, Festival of Weeks, festival seating, festivalwear, festy, Ghost Festival, harvest festival, Hungry Ghost Festival, Kaul festival, Laba Festival, Lantern Festival, macrofestival, Magpie Festival, megafestival, Mid-Autumn Festival, minifestival, nonfestival, prefestival, pride festival, pseudofestival, Pure Brightness Festival, Qingming Festival, Renaissance festival · +10 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at festival. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at festival. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at festival

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA