noun. An occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals.

noun. An often regularly recurring program of cultural performances, exhibitions, or competitions.

noun. Revelry; conviviality.

adjective. Of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival; festive.

Of, pertaining to, or befitting a feast; attending or marking a joyous celebration; joyous; festal: as, a festival entertainment.

noun. A festal day; a feast; a time of feasting; an anniversary or appointed day of festive celebration.

noun. Synonyms Banquet, etc. See feast.

adjective. Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

adjective. Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)

noun. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.

noun. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

noun. an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)

noun. a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration

"If we assign three weeks to each festival -- including the time spent on the journeys, and the delays before and after the celebration, together with the _festival week_, it will be a small allowance for the cessation of their regular labor."

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