feast
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
feast/fiːst/
▶noun
- 1 a large meal, especially a celebratory one.
■ a plentiful supply of something enjoyable.
- 2 an annual religious celebration.
■ a day dedicated to a particular saint.
■ Brit. an annual village festival.
■ give a lavish meal to.
– phrases
ghost (or skeleton) at the feast a person or thing that brings gloom to an otherwise pleasant occasion.
feast one's eyes on gaze at with pleasure.
ghost (or skeleton) at the feast a person or thing that brings gloom to an otherwise pleasant occasion.
feast one's eyes on gaze at with pleasure.
– derivatives
feaster noun.
feaster noun.
'feast' also found in these Oxford entries:
assumption
- bacchant
- Balthazar
- Barmecide
- bridal
- Childermas
- circumcision
- convivial
- Corpus Christi
- Dormition
- Eid
- feast day
- Feast of Dedication
- Feast of Tabernacles
- Feast of Weeks
- February
- festal
- festival
- fete
- fiesta
- filbert
- Holy Cross Day
- Holy Rood Day
- Immaculate Conception
- junket
- Lady Day
- leap year
- love feast
- luau
- Michaelmas
- movable
- name day
- paschal
- potlatch
- proper
- St John's wort
- succah
- sword of Damocles
- Twelfth Night
- Walpurgis night
