festival
//ˈfɛstɪvəl//
Forms
- Comparative
- more festival
- Superlative
- most festival
- Plural
- festivals
Definitions
1.Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
1.A feast or feast day.
2.An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
- A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.
- The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.
3.In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
4.Fried cornbread.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2535
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).
By surface analysis, festive + -al.
Displaced native Old English frēols.