Definitions for festivals
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1. festivals

   A festival is an extraordinary event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced entertainment. Festivals that focus on cultural or ethnic topics also seek to inform community members of their traditions; the involvement of elders sharing stories and experience provides a means for unity among families. Attendants of festivals are often motivated by a desire for escapism, socialization and camaraderie; the practice has been seen as a means of creating geographical connection, belonging and adaptability.

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1. Festivals

   Festivals is a 1973 anthology of festival-related folklore from around the world that have been compiled by Ruth Manning-Sanders. According the book's dust jacket, "This potpourri of festivals reveals fascinating customs and celebrations from many countries of the world. Each special day is preceded by background material on the origins of the holiday." Some of the special days covered are: New Year's Day, Saint Bride's Day, the Japanese Snow Festival, Saint Valentine's Day, Saint Patrick's Day, Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Easter Day, All Fools' Day, the Bright Weather Festival, Saint George's Day, May Day, the Padstow Hobby Horse, Independence Day, Michaelmas Day, Saint Crispin's Day, Hallow E'en, the Fifth of November, Hogmanay, and Christmas. For many of the festivals, the book includes the writings of some famous authors or historical personalities. Among those included in the book are Robert Herrick, Fiona Macleod, Marco Polo, John Donne, Sir Charles Lyall, Norman Hunter, Chiang Yee, Flora Thompson, Laurie Lee, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, Richard Cobbold, P. L. Travers, Oliver Herford, Alison Uttley, Richard Crashaw, Jon and Rumer Godden, and Alfred Tennyson.

How to pronounce festivals?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

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   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of festivals in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of festivals in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of festivals in a Sentence

1. Liv Torc:

   Spoken word is one of the biggest growing art forms there is, so it has quite a strong momentum, there's a really popular stage at Glastonbury, and at Latitude. Most festivals have a spoken word stage now, while 10 years ago they wouldn't.

2. Kitty Grew:

   A lot of my friends have sort of adjusted, as soon as things were unlocking they were like,' I can't wait to go clubbing, I can't wait to go to festivals or go away.' And I'm just like,' Oh my God, I feel anxious just to go on the bus to my work.'.

3. Scott Roxborough:

   Seven of the 17 films (competing for a prize), 41 percent, are female-directed, which isn't quite 50 percent but it's a lot better than any of the other big film festivals, venice last year had one female director.

4. Yi Mao:

   Festivals are the days when homesickness is at its worst, and Moon Festival is an important festival for the Chinese.

5. The British singer:

   On paper, the album that I released last time round,' No Shame,' was the best reviewed album that I've ever had, and all the shows that I did were sold out, pretty much, apart from the ones in America, but I did not get a particularly good run at festivals this season. I didn't get particularly big gigs offered to me. I didn't get a big marketing push behind my album campaign, even though it was probably the best record that I've ever written.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivals
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=festivals