festival
See also: Festival
English
Etymology
From Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɛstəvəl/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)
- Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
- the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
Noun
festival (countable and uncountable, plural festivals)
Related terms
Translations
event or community gathering
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Czech
Dutch
Etymology
From Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛs.ti.val/
Audio (file) Audio (Paris) (file)
Further reading
- “festival” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɛstival/, /festiˈval/
Related terms
- festivaliere
- festivaliero
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin festivalis, via English festival
Noun
festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)
- a festival
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin festivalis, via English festival
Noun
festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)
- a festival
Serbo-Croatian
Declension
Spanish
Turkish
Synonyms
- şenlik
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