English Explanatory Dictionary

feast

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A holiday, festival, especially a religious one
  2. A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
  3. Something delightful
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. To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
name
  1. A surname from Middle English.

Pronunciation

fēst /fiːst/ En-us-feast.ogg

Word forms

feast feasts feasting feasted

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.

Synonyms

banquet

Derived words

a contented mind is a perpetual feast afterfeast Barmecide feast bean-feast beanfeast bean feast birthfeast bull feast double feast Dutch feast enough is as good as a feast feast day feast for the eyes feastful feastless feastlike feastly Feast of Asses Feast of Fools Feast of Light Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels Feast of the Circumcision of Christ Feast of the Divine Mercy Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus Feast of Trumpets Feast of Tsing Ming Feast of Weeks feast or famine famine or feast feastware Feast Week feasty festive fixed feast forefeast ghost at the feast Great Feasts hog feast love feast midnight feast movable feast moveable feast postfeast prefeast run feast silver feast silver-feast skeleton at the feast smell-feast specter at the feast spectre at the feast feaster feast one's eyes feasting outfeast unfeasted
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