festival
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
festival/ˈfestɪvl/
▶noun
- 1 a day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons.
- 2 an organized series of concerts, films, etc., typically one held annually in the same place.
– origin ME (as adj.): via OFr. from med. L. festivalis, from L. festivus, from festum, (pl.) festa ‘feast’.
'festival' also found in these Oxford entries:
All Saints' Day
- annunciation
- Bacchanalia
- Beltane
- Bon
- Candlemas
- Christmas
- cornucopia
- Diwali
- Dussehra
- Easter
- Easter Day
- Eid
- eisteddfod
- en fête
- epiphany
- eve
- feast
- ferial
- -fest
- festal
- festival of lights
- Festival of the Dead
- festive
- festivity
- fete
- fête champêtre
- fête galante
- fiddle
- fiesta
- fleadh
- goombay
- Hanukkah
- harvest home
- high day
- Hocktide
- Holi
- holy day
- Invention of the Cross
- jai alai
- Kumbh Mela
- Kwanzaa
- Lammas
- Lantern Festival
- Lupercalia
- matsuri
- May Day
- mela
- nativity
