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Definition: Festal |
FestalAdjective1. Offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the inauguration"; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "festal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Festal \Fes"tal\, adjective. [Latin expression festum holiday, feast. See feast.]. (references) |
Synonyms: FestalSynonyms: festive (adj), gala(a) (adj), gay (adj), merry (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Adjective: amusing, entertaining, diverting; Verb: recreational, recreative, lusory; pleasant; (pleasing); laughable; (ludicrous); witty; fun, festive, festal; jovial, jolly, jocund, roguish, rompish; playful, playful as a kitten; sportive, ludibrious. |
Food | Comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living. |
Sociality | Convivial; festive, festal; jovial, jolly, hospitable. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Festal |
| English words defined with "festal": Feastful, festive ♦ gala, gay ♦ merry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "festal": Caledon. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "festal": Gallery. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Festal" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (adhere, fit out, fix, mount, put up, set out, stick on, stickiness). |
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Sir Walter Scott | Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. |
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| "Festal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Festal" is used about 6 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "festal": festal lights. Additional references. | |
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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 |
festal | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "festal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | festiv (convivial, festive), i gëzueshëm (cheerful, cheery, festive, frolic, frolicsome, gleeful, hilarious, joyful, mirthful). (various references) | |
Arabic | مهرجاني (festive). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), празничен (festive, go to meeting, holiday, sabbatic). (various references) | |
French | de fête (festival, festive). (various references) | |
German | festlich (ceremonious, convivial, convivially, feastful, festally, festive, gala, magnificent, solemn, solemnly, splendid). (various references) | |
Greek | εορτιόσ, εορτάσιμοσ (gala), εορταστικόσ (commemorative, festive). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עליז (blithe, cheerful, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, joyful, light hearted, merry, mirthful, playful, sprightly), ח'י'י (ceremonial, festive, solemn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ünnepi (convivial, festival, festive, gala, go to meeting). (various references) | |
Italian | festivo (festive, holiday). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estalfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | festivo (anacreontic, cheerful, convivial, festive, gay, holiday, merry), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references) | |
Romanian | vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), sãrbãtoresc (feastly, festival, festive, holiday-like, merry, solemn, splendid). (various references) | |
Russian | праздничный (celebratory, Christmassy, convivial, festive, gala, go to meeting, holiday). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svečan (declamatory, dressy, festive, formal, gala, grave, serious, solemn, state, stately). (various references) | |
Spanish | festivo (boon, festival, festive, holiday, playful), feriado (holiday). (various references) | |
Swedish | fest- (festive). (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับการเลี้ยงฉลอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | bayram ile ilgili, bayram (feast, festival, fete, fiesta, gala, holiday, holidays, hols). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | святковий (convivial, ferial, festival, festive, gala, holiday, jolly, merry), радісний (cheery, cock-a-hoop, elate, elated, glad, gleeful, heartwarming, joyful, joyous, jubilant, roseate, rosy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuộc ng y lễ (festive), thuộc ng y hội vui. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | festum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "festal": festally. (additional references) | |
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"Festal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bestal, Bestall, Eeshal, estal, Estall, fasal, fasta, fastel, Fastrak, Faysal, feastal, fecta, Ferstl, fesat, Fessal, festa, Festhalle, festi, festial, Festum, festval, fetals, Feustel, Fewsdale, fisal, fistel, fistral, forstal, Frestel, Fusata, Gestel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "festal" (pronounced 'Fes"tal'): Abettal, Abuttal, Aconital, Acquittal, Alimental, Aliseptal, Antenatal, Antisacerdotal, Aplacental, Argental, Argumental, Assonantal, Atlantal, Attal, Bidental, Brutal, Cliental, Coincidental, Committal, Complemental, Complimental, Consonantal, Contrapuntal, Costal, fatal, fetal, firmamental, foetal, fragmental, Glottal, governmental, horizontal, implemental, incremental, instrumental, intercontinental, intercostal, Linguidental, Meatal, Medicamental, Mercaptal, Momental, monumental, Nasofrontal, Nasoseptal, Natal, Nidamental, Noncommittal, Notal, Nutrimental. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: alefs, false, fates, feast, feats, felts, fetal, fetas, flats, fleas, leafs, least, lefts, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, tesla. | |
-2 letters: alef, ales, alts, ates, east, eats, efts, etas, fast, fate, fats, feal, feat, felt, feta, fets, flat, flea, lase, last, late, lats, leaf, leas, left, lest, lets, safe, sale. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: falsest, falters, fatless, fetials, flasket, folates, sulfate. | |
+2 letters: defaults, deflates, falsetto, fealties, feastful, fellates, festally, festival, fetiales, fetialis, filiates, fistulae, flakiest, flamiest, flaskets, flatbeds, flatlets, flatness, flattens, flatters, flattest, flatuses, flatwise, flawiest, flaxiest, fleapits, floatels, floaters, flotages, foliates, forestal, frailest, hasteful, inflates, leafiest, leaflets, reflates, refloats, refutals, stageful, sufflate, sulfated, sulfates, talkfest, tasteful, wasteful. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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