About The Word Feast
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Feast
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What's The Definition Of Feast?
[n] something experienced with great delight; "a feast for the eyes"
[n] an elaborate party (often outdoors) [n] a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast" [n] a ceremonial dinner party for many people [v] gratify; "feed one's eye on a gorgeous view" [v] partake in a feast or banquet [v] provide a feast or banquet for Synonyms | Synonyms for Feast: banquet | banquet | banquet | feed | fete | fiesta | junket Related Terms | Find terms related to Feast: allay | anniversary | appease | assuage | bank holiday | banquet | bean-feast | beano | birthday | blow | blowout | board | bread | bread and butter | carnival | celebration | cheer | church calendar | church feast | comestibles | commemoration | creature comfort | cuisine | daily bread | day of festivities | day off | delight | dine | do | do justice to | eat heartily | eat up | eatables | ecclesiastical calendar | edibles | entertain | entertainment | event | fair | fare | fare well | fast | fast food | feast day | feed | festal board | festival | festival day | festive occasion | festivity | fete | fete day | field day | fiesta | fixed feast | food | food and drink | foodstuff | gala | gala affair | gala day | gladden | gormandize | gratification | gratify | great doings | groaning board | health food | high day | High Holiday | High Holy Day | high jinks | holiday | holy day | holytide | ingesta | jamboree | joyance | jubilation | jubilee | junk food | kermis | kitchen stuff | legal holiday | Lucullan feast | mad round | Mardi Gras | meal | meat | memorialization | merrymaking | observance | occasion | overindulge | party | picnic | please | pleasure | polish the platter | provender | provision | put it away | quench | red-letter day | refreshment | regale | regalement | repast | revel | revelment | revelry | rite | ritual | round of pleasures | Sabbath | sate | satiate | satisfy | Saturnalia | slake | solemnization | spread | Sunday | sustenance | table | treat | tucker | viands | victuals | vittles | waygoose | wayzgoose | wine and dine See Also | dinner | dinner party | eat | gaudy | host | meal | party | regale | repast | thing | treat | wine and dine Feast In Webster's Dictionary \Feast\ (f[=e]st), n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast,
OF. feste festival, F. f[^e]te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr.
festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fair}, n.,
{Festal}, {F[^e]te}.]
1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a
joyous, anniversary.
The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. --Ex.
xiii. 6.
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the
feast of the passover. --Luke ii. 41.
Note: Ecclesiastical fasts are called immovable when they
always occur on the same day of the year; otherwise
they are called movable.
2. A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or
sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a
banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of
food.
Enough is as good as a feast. --Old Proverb.
Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand
of his lords. --Dan. v. 1.
3. That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight;
something highly agreeable; entertainment.
The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. --Pope.
{Feast day}, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemo?ative
festival.
Syn: Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal;
festivity; festival.
Usage: {Feast}, {Banquet}, {Festival}, {Carousal}. A feast
sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety,
and abudance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a
festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of
some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained
indulgence in frolic and drink.
\Feast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Feasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Feasting}.] [OE. festen, cf. OF. fester to rest from work, F. f[^e]ter to celebrate a holiday. See {Feast}, n.] 1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. And his sons went and feasted in their houses. --Job. i. 4. 2. To be highly gratified or delighted. With my love's picture then my eye doth feast. --Shak. \Feast\, v. t. 1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. --Hayward. 2. To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul. Feast your ears with the music a while. --Shak. |
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