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Definition: Festival |
FestivalNoun1. A day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration. 2. An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "festival" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of being at a festival, denotes indifference to the cold realities of life, and a love for those pleasures that make one old before his time. You will never want, but will be largely dependent on others. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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A festival or fest is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community. "Cherry Days" in Paonia, Colorado is a typical festival.Types of Festivals
The word fest derives from the German language. See List of German expressions in English.
- Arts festival
- Cultural festival
- Film festival
- Food festival
- Literary festival
- Music festival
- Religious festival
- Theatre festival
See also: List of festivals, wiktionary:fest, wiktionary:festival
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In Mythology, a festival was also a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
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A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre.They may be subdivided by musical genre:
Classical music festivals
- Chichester Festival
- Salzburg Festival
- Three Choirs Festival
Folk festival
- Kaustinen Folk Music Festival
- Llangollen International Eisteddfod
Jazz festivals
- Brecon Jazz Festival
- Montreux Jazz Festival
Opera festivals
- Glyndebourne
- Ilmajoki Music Festival
- Savonlinna Opera Festival
Pop Festivals
- Acapulco
- Eurovision
- OTI-Same as Eurovision, but in Iberoamerica.
- San Remo
- Viña del Mar
Rock festivals
- Big Day Out
- Cornerstone Festival
- Creamfields
- Family Values Tour
- Glastonbury festival
- Love Parade
- US Festival
- ENIT
- Lillith Fair
- Warped Tour
- Lollapalooza
- Ozzfest
- Woodstock (and Woodstock 2)
- Hultsfred
- Roskilde
- Printemps de Bourges, in Bourges, France
- Reading Festival & Leeds Festival
- Greenbelt, in Greenbelt, England
External link
- Music Festivals Festivals.com
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Pride parades are ceremonies held by the Queer community of a city to commemorate the struggle for gay liberation, gay rights, and gay pride.
Baton twirlers perform in the 2002 Divers-Cité pride parade in downtown Montreal The Queer community of a city will typically present an annual parade, sometimes in the context of a longer celebration including performances, dances, street parties, and the like. Most gay pride parades take place in the summer, particularly in June, to commemorate the Stonewall riots.
Pride parades evolved from protest marches held by Queer people to fight for their rights. Many parades still have this character, especially in less Queer-positive settings. However, in more Queer-positive cities, the parades take on an exclusively festive or even Mardi Gras-like character. Large parades often involve floats, dancers, drag queens, music over megaphones, and marching groups from Queer institutions of various kinds. Some particularly important pride parades are even funded by governments and corporate sponsors, and promoted as major tourist attractions for the cities that host them.
A portion of homosexual men and women regard pride parades, especially those of a more festive character, as vulgar flaunting of sexual orientation, charging them with an undue emphasis on sex and bizarre behaviour which they see as detrimental to the cause of gay rights. Others criticize this position, seeing it as pandering to homophobia, and arguing that heterosexuality takes centre stage the other 364 days of the year and that pride parades promote visibility and discussion of gay and lesbian issues. Still others argue that such parades are carnivals and that they should be taken as such rather than as representative of everyday gay and lesbian life.
Cities particularly noted for their pride parades include New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, and Sydney (see Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras)
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A Rock Festival is a large-scale outdoor rock music concert, featuring multiple acts, often spread out over several days. The first rock festivals were put on in the late 1960s and were social and sociopolitical milestones as well as musical events. Later rock festivals were increasingly commercial endeavors. In the 1980s a minor resurgence of festivals occurred with charity as the goal.Important rock festivals include:
- The Monterey Pop Festival (1967) - The first rock festival was the climax of the summer of love on the West coast, and became the model for all that followed.
- Woodstock(1969) - The most famous and important rock festival
- The Altamont Speedway concert (1969) - The infamous and deadly event revealed the dark side of the festival
- The Isle of Wight Festival (1970) - the first British rock festival, modeled after the Monterey and Woodstock festivals
- The Atlanta Pop Festival
- California Jam - The first media-sponsored, commercially lucrative festival.
- Live Aid
- Farm Aid
- Woodstock 1999
- Glastonbury festival
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The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of 19th century British labourers who formed a trade union, and were subsequently arrested and sent to Australia.The Reform Act of 1832 made unions legal, and that year six men from Tolpuddle in Dorset founded the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers to protest the gradual lowering of wages in the 1830s. They refused to work for less than 10 shillings a week, although by this time wages were as low as 6 shillings a week. The society, led by George Loveless, met in the house of Thomas Standfield.
In 1834 a local landowner wrote to Prime Minister Lord Melbourne to complain about the union, invoking an obscure law from 1797 prohibiting people from swearing oaths to each other, which the Friendly Society had done. James Brine, James Hammett, George Loveless, George's brother James, George's brother in-law Thomas Standfield, and Thomas' son John Standfield were arrested, found guilty, and transported to Australia.
They became popular heroes and were released in 1836, with the support of Lord John Russell who had recently become Home Secretary. George Loveless was later involved in the Chartist Movement, while the others moved to London, Ontario, Canada, where there is now a monument in their honour. There was also a monument erected in their honour in Tolpuddle in 1934, and a sculpture of the martyrs made in 2001 stands in the village in front of the martyrs museum.
An annual festival is held in Tolpuddle, organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) featuring a parade of banners from many trade unions, a memorial service, speakers such as Tony Benn and musicians such as Billy Bragg, as well as others from all around the world. The festival is usually held in the third week of July.
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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 |
FESTIVAL | English | Functional Electrical Stimulation To Improve Value Ability and Lifestyle | Medicine |
| FEATS | English | Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies | N/A |
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Synonym: FestivalSynonym: fete (n). (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. |
Sociality | Party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_e; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_e, dish of tea, ridotto, rout; housewarming; ball, festival; smoker, smoker-party;sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha; tea-party, tea-fight. (amusement); " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Hey! You like sex? Come to the Festival of Ducks (Ed; writing credit: Steven Joel Kerzner) Those of us left here were all struck by a sadness, almost as if a great festival had finally come to an end. (Urusei Yatsura 3: Rimenbâ mai rabu; writing credit: Tomoko Konparu; Rumiko Takahashi) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1973) Afternoon at the Festival (1973) Festival Unità (1973) The Festival Game (1970) Festival panafricain d'Alger (1970) | |
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 | A NOAA film crew documented the restoration work. The finished educational video won an award at the Houston World Fest Film Festival. The video outlined the restoration work and showcased the value of the Bay's marine resources. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Shipboard and scientific crew unite for the 2nd Annual Thanksgiving Pinata Festival on board the NOAA Ship McARTHUR during Project STAR 2000. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Training for the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival bicycle race on one of the backroads in the northern part of the Chequamegon National Forest, WI. Credit: USDA. |  | The Burning Man illuminated with neon lights, Burning Man festival, Black Rock Desert, Gerlach, Nevada. Credit: Mike Bilbo. |
 | Campers at Black Rock City, Burning Man festival, Black Rock Desert, Gerlach, Nevada. Credit: Mike Bilbo. |  | A wagon train wedding at the Pioneer Festival (NHOTIC). Credit: BLM Staff. |
 | Dancing at the Pioneer Festival (NHOTIC). Credit: BLM Staff. |  | Utah Annual Wild Horse Festival. Credit: Kelly Rigby. |
 | Acrylic painting of a pair of canvasbacks by Bruce Miller, 4365 Enchanted Point, Mound, MN 55364. Miller, a professional artist and avid outdoorsman, studied art at St. Cloud State University and has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the United States. He started painting wildlife in 1980 and took third place in the 1991 Federal Duck Stamp Contest. Other honors received in 1993 include being named Artist of the Year for both the Michigan Wildlife Art Festival in Detroit and the Wildlife and Western Art Show in Minneapolis. Miller also won the 1993 Minnesota Pheasant Habitat Stamp Contest and was commissioned to design the 1993 New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Virginia State Duck Stamps. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |  | Maslennitsa festival procession, Cathedral park, Vologda, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
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| "Festival Lights" by Michio Takagi Commentary: "I picture of a ride on a street festival near my house." | "ElMartinez @ Roskilde Festival" by Ossian Engmark Commentary: "Drunk and stoned friend..." |
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 | Crowd noise at a gamelan festival with dancing. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | What a festival everywhere |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In February police dispersed a crowd of women in Yining during the Ramadan Festival. (references) | |
Gifts are given mainly during the Christmas holidays, on birthdays and weddings and, to a lesser extent, during the Chinese holidays of the Lunar New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival, Valentine's Day, Secretaries' Week and Mother's Day. Traditionally, red packets of cash are given to children and unmarried adults during the Lunar New Year; for the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is moon-cakes and lanterns for children; cash and jewelry (particularly gold jewelry) are given at weddings. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Singapore | They submitted written apologies for making the film and withdrew it from the Festival. (references) |
Morocco | The Government annually organizes in May the "Fez Festival of Sacred Music," which includes musicians from many countries representing many religions. (references) | |
Singapore | The three were told that they could be charged in court if they went ahead with a planned screening of the film at the Singapore International Film Festival. (references) | |
Economic History | Denmark | The Royal Danish Ballet, an exceptional company, specializes in the work of the great Danish choreographer August Bournonville (1805-79). Danes have distinguished themselves as jazz musicians, and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival has acquired an international reputation. (references) |
Human Rights | Korea | In August 16 members of a group who went to Pyongyang as a delegation to an inter-Korean Independence Day Festival allegedly broke a pledge not to engage in political activities. (references) |
Bangladesh | On June 7, police arrested Maulana Akbar, a "madrasa" (Islamic school) teacher, under suspicion that he was involved in a bombing incident which killed 10 persons on April 14 during a Bengali New Year festival. (references) | |
Minorities | Sri Lanka | In May 2000, 23 persons were killed and dozens injured when an LTTE bomb exploded near a temple at the Buddhist Vesak festival. (references) |
Ghana | Unlike in 2000, the Government made no attempts to mediate between charismatic Christians and ethnic Ga traditionalists prior to the Homowo (harvest) festival. (references) | |
Ghana | There was occasional fighting between ethnic Ga traditionalists and members of some Christian charismatic churches over the annual ban by Ga traditional leaders on drumming and noise-making prior to the Ga Homowo (harvest) festival. (references) | |
Political Economy | Vietnam | In July a festival gathering of up to 300,000 Hoa Hao in An Giang province took place with official permission, and in August an estimated 15,000 persons attended the Roman Catholic La Vang pilgrimage. (references) |
Travel | Colombia | December 24 through December 31, 2001 (Folklore Festival, offices open only from 8:00 am - 1:00 pm), Cali. (references) |
Colombia | Regional Holidays: December 24 through December 30, 2000 (Folklore Festival) (Offices open only from 8:00 - 13:00), Cali. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | Security was intensified during sensitive anniversaries and festival days, and particularly during ceremonies surrounding the 50th anniversary of the "Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" in the summer. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | 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. |
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| "Festival" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.88% of the time. "Festival" is used about 3,043 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) | 98.88% | 3,009 | 3,109 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.12% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,043 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "festival". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Festus | Male | Ancient Roman | A festival |
| Festus | Male | Biblical | A festival |
| Hoglah | N/A | Biblical | His festival or dance |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "festival": church festival ♦ festival day ♦ festival of fashion ♦ festival of Lights ♦ festival of sacrifices ♦ festival of sweets ♦ film festival ♦ flower festival ♦ harvest festival ♦ High festival ♦ in festival attire ♦ jazz festival ♦ opera festival ♦ organizer of a festival ♦ pop festival ♦ religious festival ♦ sports festival. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "festival": festival-cum-carnival, festival-goers. | |
Ending with "festival": mid-festival. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "festival"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | party (a lot of, celebration, many, much, party, plenty, plenty of). (various references) | |
Albanian | festival, festim (celebration, do, frolic, jollification, merrymaking, regale, revel, solemnization), festë (conviviality, do, feast day, fete, fete day, fiesta, holiday, jamboree, party, red letter day, soiree), gosti (celebration, dinner party, entertainment, feast, festivity, junket, junketing, merry-meeting, party, razzle, razzle-dazzle, reception, regale, spread). (various references) | |
Arabic | مهرجان (carnival, celebration, festivity, gala), حفلة (binge, celebration, entertainment, exercise, fete, junket, meeting, party, set, show), عيدي, عيد (feast, festivity, gala, holiday, rejoicing), إبتهاج (acclamation, airiness, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, ecstasy, exhilaration, exultation, festivity, gaiety, joy, jubilation, lustiness, pleasure, rejoicing, spree, sunshine), بهجة (cheering, delectation, delight, felicity, gladness, joy, merriment). (various references) | |
Basque | besta (holiday). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фестивал, празник (feast, feast day, fete, gala-day, holiday, memorial, playday, red letter day). (various references) | |
Catalan | festa (celebration, party). (various references) | |
Chinese | 节日, 節慶 , 節日 (holiday), 節 (part, point, section, temperate). (various references) | |
Czech | festival (gala-day), svátek (feast, feast of weeks, holiday, name day, public holiday, red letter day), slavnost (celebration, ceremony, fete, fiesta, function, gala, solemnization). (various references) | |
Danish | højtid (celebration, party), fest (celebration, party). (various references) | |
Dutch | festival. (various references) | |
Esperanto | festo (celebration, party), festivalo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | veitsla (celebration, party, treat), hátíð (celebration, party). (various references) | |
Finnish | juhla (celebration, party). (various references) | |
French | fête (feast, festivity, fete). (various references) | |
German | fest (abiding, attached, banquet, buoyant, buoyantly, carnival, celebration, closely, compact, consistent, constant, continual, continuous, crisp, definite, faithfully, fast, feast, 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). (various references) | |
Greek | εορτή (affair, celebration, feast, fete, fiesta, gala, holiday, jubilee). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | gosti (celebration, party). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מועד (confirmed, forewarned, habitual, liable, meeting, season, term, warned), יום טוב (feast, holiday), תחגה, פסטיבל (fiesta), חגיגה (celebration, festivity, fete, gala), חג (feast, fiesta, holiday). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fesztivál, ünnepély (ceremonial, ceremony, exercises, solemnity). (various references) | |
Icelandic | veisla (celebration, party). (various references) | |
Indonesian | festival. (various references) | |
Irish | féile. (various references) | |
Italian | festa (Bank holiday, binge, celebration, do, feast, festivity, fete, gaudy, holiday, holifay, jamboree, party). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 祭 (feast). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フェスティバル , フェスティヴァ , まつり (feast, jasmine, Jasminum sambac), さいれい, さいじ (minor detail, rites, ritual, small type or handwriting, trifle, year), さいてん (changing directions, grading, looking over, marking, turning around), さいし (clever man, filament, priest, reconsideration, religious service, ritual, talented man, wife and children), いわい (celebration). (various references) | |
Korean | 축제 (fiesta, gala). (various references) | |
Manx | giense (carousal, ceilidh, do, entertainment, feast, feasting, get together, house party, junket, revel, social), feish (assembly, carnival, fete), feailley (end, end of roof, feast, fete, holiday, Holy day, sacred), feaill (Holy day), ard-laa (heyday), ard-eailley (celebration, chief festival). (various references) | |
Norwegian | festspill, fest (celebration, feast, party), høytid (feast). (various references) | |
Occitan | fèsta (holiday). (various references) | |
Papiamen | fiesta (celebrate, celebration, party), festival. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estivalfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | festival, festa (celebration, feast, feast-day, festivity, fete, feteday, function, gala, junket, merriment, party, playday, revel, treat), celebração (celebration, church service, party). (various references) | |
Quechua | jistaqa. (various references) | |
Romanian | festival (fete), festiv (feastful, festive, fine, holiday-like, solemn), voios (cheerful, cheerfully, exhilarated, genial, genially, glad, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, mellow, merrily, merry, mirthful, saucy), veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, 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), solemn (exalted, grave, impressive, solemn, state), serbare (celebration, feast, festivity, fete), sãrbãtoresc (feastly, festal, festive, holiday-like, merry, solemn, splendid), sãrbãtoare (feast, gala, holiday, holidays, revel), praznic (feast, treat, wake), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree). (various references) | |
Russian | фестиваль, празднество (fete, fete day, gala, jamboree, jollification, jubilee, merry-making). (various references) | |
Scottish | féill (a fair, fair, feast, market, or -tean). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | festival, praznik (festivity, holiday). (various references) | |
Sotho | festivaleng (the festival). (various references) | |
Spanish | fiesta (carnival, celebration, convocation, do, feast, feast day, fete, feteday, frolic, gala, holiday, junket, leap day, party, shindig, shindy). (various references) | |
Sranan | fesa (celebration, party), boda (celebration, party). (various references) | |
Swedish | fest (celebration, do, feast, fest, festivity, fete, fiesta, frolic, junket, party, revel), helg (holiday, season), högtid (fears, feast). (various references) | |
Thai | เทศกาล (fest), ซึ่งเฉลิมฉลอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | festival ile ilgili, festival (carnival, fair, feast, festive, festivity), yortu (feast, fiesta, holiday, holidays, hols), bayram (feast, festal, fete, fiesta, gala, holiday, holidays, hols), şenlik (carnival, convivial, conviviality, festivity, fete, fiesta, gaiety, gala, glorification, jubilation, rejoicing). (various references) | |
Turkmen | festiwal (r), baяram. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | святкування (celebration, celebrity, commemoration, feast, fete, gala, jamboree, jubilee, solemnization, upshot, wake), святковий (convivial, ferial, festal, festive, gala, holiday, jolly, merry), свято (gala, holiday, jubilation, playday, rejoicing, sacredly), фестиваль, бенкетний (convivial). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuộc ngày hội, ngày hội (fiesta, high-day), hội diễn đợt biểu diễn nhạc lớn, đại hội liên hoan. (various references) | |
Welsh | gw+yl (bashful, feast, holiday, modest), cymanfa (assembly), cylchwyl (anniversary). (various references) | |
Yucatec | cha'an (celebration, party). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ezen. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | die, diebus, diei, diem, dierum, dierumque, dies, festa, feste, festi, festis, festo, festum, sabbata, sabbateus, sabbati, sabbatis, sabbato, sabbatorum, sabbatum, solemnitas. (various references) |
| German | 100 BCE-Modern | Fest. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | feste. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | fte. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "festival": festivalgoer, festivalgoers, festivals. (additional references) | |
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"Festival" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aestival, fastival, Festehalle, festeval, festial, festical, festivally, festivus, festval, fetial, fistival, mesotidal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "festival" (pronounced fe"stuvul) |
| 4 | -u v u l | carnival. |
| 3 | -v u l | anvil, approval, archival, arrival, arval, bedevil, bevel, civil, daredevil, devil, disapproval, dishevel, drivel, evil, gavel, gravel, grovel, hovel, survival, swivel, interval, larval, level, marvel, medieval, multilevel, naval, navel, novel, oval, primeval, Ravel, removal, retrieval, revel, revival, rival, servile, shovel, shrivel, travel, uncivil, unravel, upheaval, weevil. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: estival, fetials. | |
-2 letters: falsie, festal, fetial, fiesta, filets, fliest, flites, itself, livest, saltie, silvae, stelai, stifle, valets, valise, vestal, vilest, vitals. | |
-3 letters: aisle, alefs, alifs, alist, alive, evils, fails, false, fates, faves, feast, feats, feist, felts, fetal, fetas, fiats, files, filet, fives, flats, fleas, flies, flite, flits, islet, istle, laves, leafs, least, lefts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: festivals. | |
+2 letters: afterlives. | |
+4 letters: festivalgoer, overinflates. | |
+5 letters: festivalgoers, flavoproteins. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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