OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6879

feast

/fiːst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fiesta
A holiday, festival, especially a religious one
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
almorzada • banquete • calderada • comelona • comilitona • comilona • convite • festín • hartadera • tragantona • troleada • ágape
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 6880

feast

/fiːst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
banquetearse
To partake in a feast, or large meal.
I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
banquetear
To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
He that shall see this day, and live old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”
His ancestor, he said, had been feasted there, when he went forward with the then Lord Ravenswood to the fatal battle of Flodden, in which they both fell.