feast

Meaning

Noun

1. A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
2. Something delightful
3. A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

Verb

1. To partake in a feast, or large meal.
2. To dwell upon (something) with delight.
3. To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
4. (obsolete) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.

Concepts

feast

banquet

festival

celebration

party

holiday

treat

dinner

festivity

fiesta

junket

fete

entertain

meal

revel

regale

celebrate

social gathering

ceremony

entertainment

dinner party

feed

drinking bout

goodies

treating

carnival

celebrate with feasting

spread

carouse

enjoyment

delight

enjoy

marriage

jubilee

holy day

feasting

booze-up

potlatch

sitting

speech

provide dinner for

festival season

season

welcoming party

give a party

have a Chinese dinner

attend

refreshment

revelry

enjoy a feast

delicacy

dainty

gratification

be delighted

gratify

repast

wassail

jollification

spree

memorialize

affair

gala

fair

symposium

accommodate

rheumatism

festive occasion

funeral potlatch

gormandise

gormandize

gourmandize

indulging

pleasance

pleasure

satisfaction

relish

savor

savour

banqueting

beanfeast

drinking

food

provision

binge

eating and drinking

mark

symbol

joyous occasion

fest

feast day

make merry

game

fill

plenty

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fiːst/

Etymology

From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate.

Sentences

The feast ending Pentecost was dedicated to Saint Roch .