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n. An occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals.

n. An often regularly recurring program of cultural performances, exhibitions, or competitions: a film festival.

n. Revelry; conviviality.

adj. Of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival; festive.

adj. Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)

n. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.

n. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

adj. Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

Of, pertaining to, or befitting a feast; attending or marking a joyous celebration; joyous; festal: as, a festival entertainment.

n. A festal day; a feast; a time of feasting; an anniversary or appointed day of festive celebration.

n. Synonyms Banquet, etc. See feast.

n. an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)

n. a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration

"If we assign three weeks to each festival -- including the time spent on the journeys, and the delays before and after the celebration, together with the _festival week_, it will be a small allowance for the cessation of their regular labor."

festive    festivities   

festive    festal    joyous    mirthful   

Art & Culture    Music   

feast    celebration    ceremony    festivity    holiday    entertainment    concert    dance    hymn    procession