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Definition: Feast |
FeastNoun1. A ceremonial dinner party for many people. 2. Something experienced with great delight; "a feast for the eyes". 3. A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed: "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast". 4. An elaborate party (often outdoors). Verb1. Partake in a feast or banquet. 2. Provide a feast or banquet for. 3. Gratify; "feed one's eye on a gorgeous view". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "feast" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Satire | FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | Feast as a mark of hospitality (Gen. 19:3; 2 Sam. 3:20; 2 Kings 6:23); on occasions of domestic joy (Luke 15:23; Gen. 21:8); on birthdays (Gen. 40:20; Job 1:4; Matt. 14:6); and on the occasion of a marriage (Judg. 14:10; Gen. 29:22). Feasting was a part of the observances connected with the offering up of sacrifices (Deut. 12:6, 7; 1 Sam. 9:19; 16:3, 5), and with the annual festivals (Deut. 16:11). "It was one of the designs of the greater solemnities, which required the attendance of the people at the sacred tent, that the oneness of the nation might be maintained and cemented together, by statedly congregating in one place, and with one soul taking part in the same religious services. But that oneness was primarily and chiefly a religious and not merely a political one; the people were not merely to meet as among themselves, but with Jehovah, and to present themselves before him as one body; the meeting was in its own nature a binding of themselves in fellowship with Jehovah; so that it was not politics and commerce that had here to do, but the soul of the Mosaic dispensation, the foundation of the religious and political existence of Israel, the covenant with Jehovah. To keep the people's consciousness alive to this, to revive, strengthen, and perpetuate it, nothing could be so well adapated as these annual feasts." (See FESTIVALS.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a feast, foretells that pleasant surprises are being planned for you. To see disorder or misconduct at a feast, foretells quarrels or unhappiness through the negligence or sickness of some person. To arrive late at a feast, denotes that vexing affairs will occupy you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FEAST | English | Food Education and Service Training | Food & Agriculture, Education |
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Synonyms: FeastSynonyms: fete (n), fiesta (n), banquet (v), feed (v), junket (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool. | |
Food | Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana. |
Gluttony | Good cheer, blow out; feast; (food); gastronomy, batterie de cuisine. |
Physical Pleasure | Treat; refreshment, regale; feast; delice; dainty; bonne bouche. |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day; Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide. |
Rite | Holyday, feast, fast. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Come on! Saddle up, let's get this moveable feast under way (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp) Well done Bridge, 4 hours of careful cooking and a feast of blue soup, omelette and marmalade (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding) The Whos young and old would sit down to a Feast, and they will feast, and they will feast (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price) Professor, without knowing precisely what the danger is, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack each other's heads open and feast on the goo inside (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Um, this magnificent feast represents the last of the petty cash (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) | |
Lyrics | They gathered for the feast (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES) And in the master's chambers, they gathered for the feast ("Hotel California"; performing artist: The Eagles) | |
Clever | A crumb from a winner's table is better than a feast from a loser's table! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Feast on Scraps (2002) Gipsy Pentecost (The Feast of St. Sara) (1970) Feast of Friends (1970) Flesh Feast (1970) The Love Feast (1969) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The feast. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Love feast of the Manheim Dunkers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Thanksgiving feast in Berlin 1943 / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The handwriting on the wall at Belshazzar's feast. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Feast day at San Estevan del Rey Mission, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Guam, Marianas Islands, 9 Dec. 1946. Guam Catholics honor feast day. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Feast of the Immaculate Conception / Photo. by G.E. Man. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The bivouac feast after a successful forage in the enemies country after the occupation of Munson's hill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Street vender, Italian feast. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two jolly kittens at a feast / publ. & print. by Th. Kelly, 17 Barclay St., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edward Hyde | It is not the quantity of the meat, but the cheerfulness of the guests, which makes the feast. |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Mingle dignity with festivity, eat with deliberation, feast slowly |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And first the skins wrinkle a little and swarms of flies come to feast, and the valley is filled with the odor of sweet decay |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is the premium and the feast which tempt him. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | The Government's policy of selectively authorizing the Catholic Church to hold outdoor processions at specific locations on important feast days continued during the year. (references) |
Cuba | On September 8, the Government permitted for the fourth consecutive year a procession in connection with Masses in celebration of the feast day of Our Lady of Charity in Havana. (references) | |
Cuba | State security officers also regularly harassed human rights advocates who sought to attend religious services commemorating special feast days or before significant national days, sometimes entering inside churches and disrupting religious ceremonies. (references) | |
Economic History | Paraguay | Spanish explorer Juan de Salazar founded Asuncion on the Feast Day of the Assumption, August 15, 1537. The city eventually became the center of a Spanish colonial province. (references) |
Travel | Pakistan | Ramazan begins 29 or 30 days before the feast of Eid-ul-Fitr. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled. |
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| "Feast" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.78% of the time. "Feast" is used about 762 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 (singular) | 89.78% | 684 | 9,677 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.33% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.88% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.23% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (common) | 0.79% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 762 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "feast" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Feast | Last name | 100 | 85,251 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "feast". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Agabus | N/A | Biblical | The father's joy or feast |
| Haggai | N/A | Biblical | Feast |
| Haggiah | N/A | Biblical | The Lord's feast |
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Expressions using "feast": Barmecide feast ♦ bean feast ♦ day after a feast ♦ Feast day ♦ feast for the eyes ♦ Feast of Booths ♦ feast of Dedication ♦ Feast of Guardian Angels ♦ feast of Lights ♦ feast of lots ♦ Feast of Tabernacles ♦ feast of the assumption ♦ feast of the Dedication ♦ feast of the Unleavened Bread ♦ Feast of Weeks ♦ feast on ♦ feast one's eyes ♦ feast one's eyes on ♦ feast one's eyes on smb. ♦ feast one's eyes on smth. ♦ feast to the eye ♦ funeral feast ♦ Goose feast ♦ immovable feast ♦ love feast ♦ movable feast ♦ moveable feast ♦ sacrificial feast ♦ skeleton at the feast ♦ the feast of reason and the flow of soul ♦ wedding feast. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "feast": feast-day, feast-days, feast-time. | |
Ending with "feast": bear-feast, harvest-feast, ox-feast, Smell-feast, wedding-feast. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
feast | 133 | fancy feast cat food | 18 |
feast of all saint | 74 | feast hunter moon | 17 |
christi corpus feast | 69 | feast summer | 17 |
a feast for crow | 66 | the feast day | 16 |
fancy feast | 47 | cum feast | 14 |
a moveable feast | 41 | beast feast | 13 |
medieval feast | 41 | feast ozz | 13 |
feast of tabernacles | 40 | feast interracial | 13 |
boston feast lobster | 40 | baltimore crab feast | 13 |
feast of pentecost | 39 | feast movie saint | 13 |
crab feast | 30 | flesh feast | 12 |
babettes feast | 26 | feast gennaro san | 12 |
feast henrys king | 24 | blood feast | 12 |
feast at lele | 23 | bread feast unleavened | 12 |
feast week | 23 | feast milwaukee summer | 11 |
feast heart sacred | 21 | feast milwaukee | 11 |
saint and feast day | 21 | movable feast | 11 |
feast jewish | 20 | lobster feast | 10 |
feast of trumpets | 20 | anthony feast st | 10 |
catholic day feast | 19 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "feast"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Versoendag (Day of Atonement, Feast of Expiation). (various references) | |
Albanian | festë fetare, kënaqësi (amenity, content, delectation, delight, enjoyment, fun, gladness, gratification, jocundity, kick, pleasure, relish, satisfaction, treat), kënaq (appease, content, enchant, gratify, humor, humour, indulge, please, regale, satisfy, suffice), gostit (banquet, entertain, regale, treat), gosti (celebration, dinner party, entertainment, festival, festivity, junket, junketing, merry-meeting, party, razzle, razzle-dazzle, reception, regale, spread), banket (banquet), bëj gosti (junket), aheng (bacchanal, beano, carousal). (various references) | |
Arabic | عيد (holiday), موسم (season, time), متعة بالغة, متع (humor, humour, tickle), مأدبة (banquet, function, junket, repast, spread, tuck), قصف (bombard, bombardment, bombing, cannon, hilarity, orgy, peal, revel, revelry, romp, shell, shelling), وليمة (banquet, junket), تناول طيب الطعام, عيد (festival, festivity, gala, holiday, rejoicing), إحتفل بعيد ديني, إستمتع إستمتاعا بالغا, أولم (regale). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гуляя (be on the razzle, go to town, junket, paint the town red, revel, roister, spree), гощавам, наслаждавам се (delight, luxuriate, revel), ежегоден църковен празник, банкет (banquet, dinner, do), празник (feast day, festival, fete, gala-day, holiday, memorial, playday, red letter day), пирувам (carouse, revel), пиршество (banquet, carousal, carouse, regale, symposium), пир (banquet, regale, revel, wassail). (various references) | |
Chinese | 讌會 (banquet, dinner party), 讌 (advice, counsels, repose), 觴 (goblet), 盛宴 , 宴餐, 宴 (repose). (various references) | |
Czech | svátek (feast of weeks, festival, holiday, name day, public holiday, red letter day), hostina (banquet, dinner, junket, regale, spread, symposium), hody (regale), banket (banquet). (various references) | |
Danish | festmåltid (banquet). (various references) | |
Dutch | gelag (banquet), feestmaal (banquet). (various references) | |
Esperanto | festeno (banquet), bankedi (banquet). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hátíðarborðhald (banquet). (various references) | |
Finnish | syöminki (banquet), pyhä (holiday, holy, holy day, sacred, Sunday), pirskeet (spree, wild blast), pidot (banquet), kirkollinen ym (entertainment, party), kekkerit (celebration). (various references) | |
French | banqueter. (various references) | |
Frisian | feestmiel (banquet). (various references) | |
German | Fest (abiding, attached, banquet, buoyant, buoyantly, carnival, celebration, closely, compact, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, crisp, definite, faithfully, fast, festival, festivity, fete, fexed, firm, firmly, fix, fixated, fixed, gaiety, hard, heavy, immovable, ingrained, junket, lasting, moored, non-varying, party, permanent, permanently, proof, regular, robust, safely, secure, securely, set, settled, solid, solidly, sound, squarely, stable, steadfast, steadily, steady, stiff, stout, stoutly, strong, sturdy, sustained, tight, tighten, tightly, tough, unfaltering, unhesitating, unshrinking, unwavering, unwaveringly), gelage (banquet, binge, carousal, carousals, carouse, junket, wassail), Festgelage, festessen (banquet, dinner, spread). (various references) | |
Greek | συμπόσιο (banquet, symposium), γιορτή (festival, fiesta, jollification), πανηγύρι (carnival, carnival 1, fair, festival, festivity, fete), πανδαισία (banquet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משת" (banquet, board, drink, drinking), מרזח (banquet, revel, revelry, spree), יום טוב (festival, holiday), לח'ו' (be giddy, celebrate, solemnize), חפל", ח' (festival, fiesta, holiday), זבח (sacrifice, slaughter), ח 'א (dance), "לול" (celebration, festivity, revel, spree), סעו"" (banquet, meal, repast, spread). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lakoma (banquet, beano, bout, cheer, conviviality, junket, repast, spread), ünnep (festival, festivity, holiday, holy day), vendégség (entertainment, treat), ünnepség (festival, festivity, fete, jollities). (various references) | |
Indonesian | idul fitri (feast at the end of the fast, muslim feast day). (various references) | |
Irish | fleá. (various references) | |
Italian | banchetto (banquet, spread). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 祭 (festival). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょうおう (banquet, entertainment, one's heart of hearts, Pope, the depths of one's mind, treat), きょうえ" (appearing together, banquet, co-acting, co-starring, dinner, recital contest), まつり (festival, jasmine, Jasminum sambac), "ちそうさま, "ちそう (treating), ちそう (banquet, divination based on the lay of the land, entertainment, geographic features, goodies, layer, stratum, treat). (various references) | |
Korean | 향연. (various references) | |
Manx | giense (carousal, ceilidh, do, entertainment, feasting, festival, get together, house party, junket, revel, social), gien (cheer, glee, humour, show), flurt (celebration), fleah (banquet), feailley (end, end of roof, festival, fete, holiday, Holy day, sacred), cur cuirrey da, cuirrey (banquet, cite, invitation, invite, sow), ceau giense. (various references) | |
Maori | haakari. (various references) | |
Norwegian | fest (celebration, festival, party), pryd, høytid (festival), beverte (entertain). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eastfay.(various references) | |
Polish | uczta (banquet), przyjęcie (banquet), biesiada (banquet). (various references) | |
Portuguese | festa (celebration, feast-day, festival, festivity, fete, feteday, function, gala, junket, merriment, party, playday, revel, treat), banquete (banquet, dinner, dinner-party, feast-day, regale, wassail). (various references) | |
Romanian | festin (banquet), ospãta (banquet, board, feed, grub, regale, treat, welcome), benchetui (banquet, cheer), bucura (brighten, cheer, delight, gladden, gratify, joy, rejoice), chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish), chefui (booze, carouse, go on the spree, junket, revel, spree, tipple), delecta (delight, divert, entertain, flatter, gladden), delectare (amusement, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, fun, pleasure), desfãta (enchant), desfãtare (delectation, delight, enjoyment, feasting, rejoicing, treat), invita pe cineva la o petrecere, banchet (banquet, dinner party, entertainment, house dinner, regale, repast, spread, symposium), ospãţ (banquet, feasting, regale, repast, treat), zaiafet (booze, revel, spread, spree), petrece (accompany, carouse, celebrate, end, frolic, go with, happen, junket, live, make good cheer, pass, revel, spend, spree, suffer, undergo), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), praznic (festival, treat, wake), sãrbãtoare (festival, gala, holiday, holidays, revel), sãrbãtori (celebrate, commemorate, fete, hold, keep, solemnize, toast), sãrbãtorire (celebration, rejoicings), se delecta cu (delight in), se desfãta (relish), serbare (celebration, festival, festivity, fete), veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gaiety, gale, geniality, gladness, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), masã (avoirdupois, block, board, body, bulk, clump, congeries, cooking, crop, crowd, cuisine, dinner, dusty treat, gross, lump, mass, meal, meat, multitude, people, repast, shoal, table, throng, tuck in). (various references) | |
Russian | праздник (banner day, celebration, feast day, fete, fiesta, gala day, high day, holiday, playday, red letter day, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Scottish | fleadh (a feast, banquet, entertainment), féisd (entertainment), féill (a fair, fair, festival, market, or -tean), cuirm (a feast, banquet), cùileagan. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pirovati (revel), pir (banquet, regale, revel, spelt), naslađivati se (delight, regale on, relish, savor, wallow), gozba (banquet, regale). (various references) | |
Spanish | banquete (banquet, dinner), fiesta (carnival, celebration, convocation, do, feast day, festival, fete, feteday, frolic, gala, holiday, junket, leap day, party, shindig, shindy). (various references) | |
Swedish | kalas (banquet, celebration, festival, junket, party, spread), festa (carouse, celebrate, have a gay time, jollify, junket, party, revel), fest (celebration, do, fest, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta, frolic, junket, party, revel), förpläga (treat). (various references) | |
Thai | เลี้ยง, งานฉลอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | festival (carnival, fair, festival, festive, festivity), ziyafet vermek (banquet, fete, throw a banquet), ziyafet çekmek (regale), ziyafet (banquet, beanfeast, beano, dinner, dinner party, entertainment, junket, spread, treat), zevk almak (appreciate, delight, enjoy, indulge, revel, take pleasure), yortu (festival, fiesta, holiday, holidays, hols), tadını çıkarmak (bask, discuss, drink in, enjoy, make the most of it, relish, savor, savour), haz almak (be delighted, enjoy, indulge, take pleasure), eğlendirmek (amuse, beguile, break up, divert, entertain, recreate, regale, tickle), doya doya yapmak, bayram (festal, festival, fete, fiesta, gala, holiday, holidays, hols), şölen (banquet, beanfeast, beano, fete, spread), ağırlamak (dine, entertain, fete, host, receive, regale, show hospitality, wine, wine and dine smb.). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | святкування (celebration, celebrity, commemoration, festival, fete, gala, jamboree, jubilee, solemnization, upshot, wake), тішитися, насолода (bang, delectation, delight, fruition, luxury, pleasure), бенкетувати (banquet, carouse, hobnob, junket, make whoopee, regale, revel), бенкет (banquet, carousal, epulation, regale, repast), пригощати (help oneself). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | yến tiệc ng y lễ, bữa tiệc (dinner-party, regale). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwledda (banquet), gwledd (banquet), gw+yl (bashful, festival, holiday, modest), arlwy (preparation, provision). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ezen, unu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | convivantes, dominio, dominium, epulabatur, epulaberis, epulabimini, epulabuntur, epulantes, epulantibus, epulari, epulati, epulatione, epulemur, epulentur, epulis, epulo, epulum, festa, festivitate, festivitatem, festivitates, festivitatis, festum. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fyllo, gebeorscipe. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | feste. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | fte. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Panta ton cronon oi ofqalmoi twn kakwn prosdecontai kaka oi de agaqoi hsucazousin dia pantoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Omnes dies pauperis mali secura mens quasi iuge convivium |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Alle the dayis of the pore euele; a sikir mynde as a contynuel feste. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 15, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang tanang mga adlaw sa mga sinakit mga kadaut man; Apan kadtong adunay malipayong kasingkasing may kombira sa kanunay. |
| Chinese | 困 苦 人 的 日 子 、 都 是 愁 苦 ． 心 中 歡 暢 的 、 常 享 豐 筵 。 |
| Croatian | Svi su dani bijednikovi zli, a komu je srce sretno, na gozbi je bez prestanka. |
| Danish | Alle den armes Dage er onde, glad Hjerte er stadigt Gæstebud. |
| Dutch | Al de dagen des bedrukten zijn kwaad; maar een vrolijk hart is een gedurige maaltijd. |
| Finnish | Kurjalle ovat pahoja kaikki päivät, mutta hyvä mieli on kuin alituiset pidot. |
| French | Tous les jours du malheureux sont mauvais, Mais le coeur content est un festin perpétuel. |
| German | Ein Betrübter hat nimmer einen guten Tag; aber ein guter Mut ist ein täglich Wohlleben. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lè ou nan lafliksyon, chak jou se pwoblèm. Men, lè kè ou kontan, lavi se yon fèt pou ou. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang muram harus terus berjuang dalam hidupnya, tetapi orang yang periang selalu bahagia. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bagi orang yang berdukacita jahatlah harinya, tetapi hati yang bersukacita itu seperti perjamuan senantiasa. |
| Italian | Tutti i giorni son brutti per l'afflitto, per un cuore felice è sempre festa. |
| Maori | ¶ He kino nga ra katoa o te hunga pouri; he hakari tonu ta te tangata i te ngakau marama. |
| Norwegian | Alle den ulykkeliges dager er onde, men et glad hjerte er et stadig gjestebud. |
| Portuguese | Todos os dias do aflito são maus; mas o coração contente tem um banquete contínuo. |
| Rumanian | Toate zilele celui nenorocit sknt rele, dar cel cu inima mulyqmitq are un ospqy necurmat. - |
| Russian | чУЕ "ОЙ ОЕУЮБУФОПЗП ЕЮБМШОЩ; Б Х ЛПЗП УЕТ""Е ЧЕУЕМП, Х ФПЗП ЧУЕЗ"Б ЙТ. |
| Swedish | Den betryckte har aldrig en glad dag, men ett gott mod är ett ständigt gästabud. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "feast": feasted, feaster, feasters, feastful, feasting, feasts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "feast": outfeast. (additional references) | |
Words containing "feast": outfeasted, outfeasting, outfeasts. (additional references) | |
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"Feast" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faesc, Faesch, faset, Fasht, Fastp, feabs, fealt, feart, feas, fease, feash, feasty, feath, feest, feis, feist, Ferstl, fesat, festa, Ffas, flast, fuask, fuast, Fusata, fwas, Ieast, neast, uesat, veast, weast. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "feast" (pronounced fē"st) |
| 3 | -ē" s t | beast, ceased, deceased, decreased, East, fleeced, greased, increased, leased, least, ne, northeast, pieced, policed, priest, released, southeast, yeast. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fates, feats, fetas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ates, east, eats, efts, etas, fast, fate, fats, feat, feta, fets, safe, sate, seat, seta, teas. | |
-2 letters: aft, ate, eat, efs, eft, eta, fas, fat, fet, sae, sat, sea, set, tae, tas, tea. | |
-3 letters: ae, as, at, ef, es, et, fa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-s-t" | |
+1 letter: afters, defats, facets, fasted, fasten, faster, feasts, festal, fiesta, safest, safety, strafe. | |
+2 letters: affects, afreets, bedfast, daftest, deafest, defeats, fainest, fairest, falsest, falters, fanjets, fastens, fasters, fastest, fathers, fatless, fatness, fatsoes, fattens, fattest, fatties, faucets, feasted, feaster, featest, fetials, fiestas, fissate, fixates, flasket, folates, fossate, fraters, fretsaw, gabfest, haffets, hafters, rafters, restaff, shafted, staffed, staffer, strafed, strafer, strafes, sulfate, taffies, wafters. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Abbreviations 20. Acronyms | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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