Word Meanings - FEAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year

Additional info about word: FEAST

festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. Luke ii. 41. Note: Ecclesiastical fasts are called immovable when they always occur on the same day of the year; otherwise they are called movable. 2. A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. Enough is as good as a feast. Old Proverb. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. Dan. v. 1. 3. That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. Pope. Feast day, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemo Syn. -- Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal; festivity; festival. -- Feast, Banquet, Festival, Carousal. A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abudance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained indulgence in frolic and drink.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FEAST)

• Banquet
• Feast
• festivity
• treat
• entertainment
• festival
• carousal
• carouse
• regalement
• cheer
• Carouse
• Festivity
• feast
• banquet
• revel
• debauch
• Gloat
• Revel
• glut
• Jubilee
• Holiday
• rejoicing
• merriment
• paean
• carnival
• high-day
• Regale
• entertain
• gratify
• delight
• refresh

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FEAST)

• Purify
• enlighten
• ameliorate
• elevate
• make better

Related words: (words related to FEAST)

• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• PAEAN
  1. An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities. 2. Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph. Dryden. "Public pæans of congratulation." De Quincey. 3. See Pæon.
• REVELLENT
  Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• DEBAUCHMENT
  The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• BANQUETTE
  A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
• DEBAUCHNESS
  Debauchedness.
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• CHEERER
  One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• REFRESHMENT
  1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• CARNIVAL
  prop., the putting away of meat; fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh _ levare 1. A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days before Lent, ending with
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• REVEL
  See REVEAL
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• DEBAUCH
  To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.