What does festival mean?
Definitions for festival
ˈfɛs tə vəlfes·ti·val
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word festival.
Princeton's WordNet
festival(noun)
a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
festival, fete(noun)
an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)
"a drama festival"
Wiktionary
festival(Noun)
An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
Etymology: From festivalis, from festivus.
festival(Noun)
In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
Etymology: From festivalis, from festivus.
festival(Adjective)
Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
Etymology: From festivalis, from festivus.
Webster Dictionary
Festival(adj)
pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful
Etymology: [OF. festival, fr. L. festivum festive jollity, fr. festivus festive, gay. See Festive.]
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Festival
A festival or gala is an event ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival. Among many religions, a feast is a set of celebrations in honour of God or gods. A feast and a festival are historically interchangeable. However, the term "feast" has also entered common secular parlance as a synonym for any large or elaborate meal. When used as in the meaning of a festival, most often refers to a religious festival rather than a film or art festival. In the Philippines and many other former Spanish colonies, the Spanish word fiesta is used to denote a communal religious feast to honor a patron saint. In the Christian liturgical calendar there are two principal feasts, properly known as the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord and the Feast of the Resurrection,. In the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican liturgical calendars there are a great number of lesser feasts throughout the year commemorating saints, sacred events, doctrines, etc.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'festival' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3228
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'festival' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3899
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'festival' in Nouns Frequency: #1227
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of festival in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of festival in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of festival in a Sentence
What we're trying to do is create an immersive experience where moving throughout the festival grounds is as engaging as standing and staring at the stage.
Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee:
We actually create a police compound where we have a command center, a booking area, you know, all the things you would need to run a major operation like Garlic Festival, the officers are deployed throughout the park and they're assigned to different regions of the park so they're spread out, we don't have officers all in one spot.
We are saddened that a series of unforeseen setbacks has made it impossible to put on the festival we imagined with the great lineup we had booked and the social engagement we were anticipating.
All security considerations are based on what your analysis is of the threat, garlic Festival wasn't an event that was going to have high-level politicians or political overtones, Garlic Festival was Garlic Festival. They probably looked at Garlic Festival and said... the fence should be an enough of a deterrence.
The whole situation in this land in Germany and Bavaria, of course, that is a problem but not for the festival - for the artistic aspects of the festival - but for the mood.
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Translations for festival
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- feesAfrikaans
- عيد, مهرجانArabic
- фестивал, празненствоBulgarian
- festivalCzech
- gŵylWelsh
- festivalDanish
- FestivalGerman
- φεστιβάλGreek
- festivaloEsperanto
- festivalSpanish
- jaiBasque
- جشنواره, فستیوالPersian
- festivaaliFinnish
- festivalFrench
- fleáIrish
- féillScottish Gaelic
- ઓચ્છવ, મહોચ્છવGujarati
- ard-laaManx
- त्योहार, पर्व, उत्सवHindi
- փառատոն, տոնArmenian
- festivalIndonesian
- mostra, rassegna, festivalItalian
- פסטיבלHebrew
- 祝祭, 祭典, 祭りJapanese
- ფესტივალიGeorgian
- ಹಬ್ಬKannada
- 축제, 祝祭Korean
- festum, feria, festivitasLatin
- taiopenga, hui taurimaMāori
- festivalNorwegian
- festivalDutch
- festivalNorwegian Nynorsk
- festivalNorwegian
- festiwalPolish
- festivalPortuguese
- festivalRomanian
- празднество, фестиваль, праздникRussian
- महोत्सवSanskrit
- фестивал, празник, praznik, festivalSerbo-Croatian
- festivalSwedish
- tamashaSwahili
- திருவிழாTamil
- పండుగTelugu
- มหกรรม, งานฉลองThai
- festival, şenlikTurkish
- фестивальUkrainian
- تہوارUrdu
- hội diễn, đại hội liên hoan, ngày hộiVietnamese
- 节Chinese
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