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Definition: FESTIVITIES |
FESTIVITIESPlural1. Of Festivity |
Date "FESTIVITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Crosswords: FESTIVITIES |
| English words defined with "FESTIVITIES": celebration ♦ make happy, make merry, make whoopie ♦ racket, revel ♦ Shrove ♦ wassail, whoop it up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FESTIVITIES": ATKINS ♦ INAUSPICIOUSLY ♦ LAP ♦ Marriage Plates ♦ Nativity scene ♦ Yule Log. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FESTIVITIES": Festivity. (references) |
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 | Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve. Kids at the "touch table" at Estuaries Day 1999 festivities. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Print after a sketch by T. Dart Walker, entitled "Christmas Eve in the United States Navy". Its original caption reads: "Giving the famous Highland toast and song for sweethearts and wives. Wherever Uncle Sam's fighting ships are stationed throughout the world, it is the custom of the officers to rise, as here depicted, at the conclusion of the Christmas Eve festivities in honor of the absent home folks. This sketch was made by the noted marine artist, T. Dart Walker, while crossing the Arabian Sea on board the battleship 'Kansas'.". Credit: NAVY. |
 | Underway, circa early 1967. This photograph was included with a 11 February 1967 USS Wasp press release, concerning her appearance at New Orleans' Mardi Gras festivities. Credit: NAVY. |  | Thanksgiving festivities at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, Thursday, Nov. 27 / from a sketch by our special artist, W.T. Crane. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Women dancers enter Baudouin stadium, Leopoldville, Congo, for festivities celebrating Congo's independence. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Music class practicing songs for May Day-Health Day festivities. Flint River Farms, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Crowd watching baseball game after May Day-Health Day festivities of Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ninth grade dancing Virginia reel at May Day-Health Day festivities. Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Picnic lunch at May Day-Health Day festivities at Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Night in Chicago" by Fredrik Feyling Commentary: "Some festivities in Chicago, night picture long exposure." | "Fireworks1" by Peter E. Leonard Commentary: "Fireworks from the Canada Day Festivities in my home town Free to use for any pupose, however i would appreciate credit for the photo. ©2003 Peter E. Leonard." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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Economic History | Colombia | Despite a decelerated internal demand, sharp increases in clothing production and consumer spending occurred during the second half of 2000 (perhaps due to end-of-year festivities), but dropped again in the first quarter of 2001. Imports in 2001 are expected to benefit from slightly higher consumer spending and decreased Colombian inflationary pressures, despite an acceleration of the Colombian peso devaluation (estimated to reach 16.6 percent by the end of 2001). (references) |
Human Rights | Congo | There were no reports of raids of opposition party leaders' residences; however, soldiers continued to occupy opposition leader Antoine Gizenga's home, which military forces confiscated for political reasons in 2000. On April 23, during the festivities to celebrate the return to the country of opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, security forces reportedly commandeered a number of vehicles from Tshisekedi supporters and parked them three miles away. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system -- an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. The male of our species has a rudimentary lap, imperfectly developed and in no way contributing to the animal's substantial welfare. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FESTIVITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.24% of the time. "FESTIVITIES" is used about 227 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 98.24% | 223 | 20,178 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.76% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 227 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FESTIVITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | festime (rejoicing). (various references) | |
Finnish | juhlallisuudet (ceremonies). (various references) | |
French | réjouissances. (various references) | |
German | Festlichkeiten (festivity, solemnities). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 祭騒ぎ (merrymaking), 催し (auspices, event, function, holding, opening, social gathering). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まつりさわぎ (merrymaking), もよおし (auspices, event, function, holding, opening, social gathering). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estivitiesfay.(various references) | |
Russian | торжество (celebration, exultation, solemnities, solemnity, triumph). (various references) | |
Swedish | högtidligheter. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | урочистості. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | camelis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FESTIVITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Festivitates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FESTIVITIES" (pronounced festi"vutēz) |
| 7 | -t i" v u t ē z | activities, sensitivities. |
| 6 | -i" v u t ē z | proclivities. |
| 5 | -v u t ē z | cavities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | absurdities, abilities, abnormalities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, animosities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, causalities, celebrities, charities, commodities, commonalities, communities, complexities, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, disabilities, disability, disparities, divinities, eccentricities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, fidelities, formalities, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, legalities, liabilities, liquidities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, priorities, probabilities, propensities, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, securities, sensibilities, similarities, societies, sororities, technicalities, tonalities, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, vanities, varieties, velocities, verities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-i-i-s-s-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: feistiest, testifies. | |
-4 letters: festive, vitesse. | |
-5 letters: evites, feists, sestet, sieves, testes, testis, tsetse, visits. | |
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