Feast
[fiːst] or [fist]
Definition
(noun.) something experienced with great delight; 'a feast for the eyes'.
(verb.) partake in a feast or banquet.
(verb.) provide a feast or banquet for.
Checker: Sumner--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.
(n.) To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
(n.) To be highly gratified or delighted.
(v. t.) To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
(v. t.) To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Banquet, treat, entertainment, REGALE, carousal, sumptuous repast.[2]. Festival, holiday, day of feasting, festive celebration, joyful anniversary, day of rejoicing.[3]. Enjoyment, delight.
v. n. Eat (plentifully), be entertained, fare sumptuously.
v. a. [1]. Entertain sumptuously, feed luxuriously.[2]. Delight, gratify, rejoice, gladden, please highly.
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Definition
n. a day of unusual solemnity or joy: a festival in commemoration of some event—movable such as occurs on a specific day of the week succeeding a certain day of the month as Easter; immovable at a fixed date as Christmas: a rich and abundant repast: rich enjoyment for the mind or heart.—v.i. to hold a feast: to eat sumptuously: to receive intense delight.—v.t. to entertain sumptuously.—ns. Feast′-day; Feast′er.—adj. Feast′ful festive joyful luxurious.—ns. Feast′ing; Feast′-rite a rite or custom observed at feasts.—adj. Feast′-won (Shak.) won or bribed by feasting.—Feast of fools Feast of asses medieval festivals held between Christmas and Epiphany in which a burlesque bishop was enthroned in church and a burlesque mass said by his orders and an ass driven round in triumph.—Double feast (eccles.) one on which the antiphon is doubled.
Editor: Whitney
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a feast, foretells that pleasant surprises are being planned for you. To see disorder or misconduct at a feast, foretells quarrels or unhappiness through the negligence or sickness of some person. To arrive late at a feast, denotes that vexing affairs will occupy you.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are 'movable ' and 'immovable but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven.
Editor: Peter
Examples
- I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could not have enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If I have not (Macbeth-like) broken up the feast with most admired disorder, Daisy. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I could not refuse, and so you have a little feast at night to make up for the bread-and-milk breakfast. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Enough is as good as a feast, is it not, Mr. Sykes? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To show my penitence, will you accept a ten pound note towards your marketing, and give the poor fellows a feast? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- So he guillotined Hébert, who had celebrated the Feast of Reason, and all his party. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But all days come that are to be; and the marriage-day was to be, and it came; and with it came all the Barnacles who were bidden to the feast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The primitive custom of both Aryans and Mongols of holding great feasts in halls still held good, and there was much hard drinking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor have I been debarred, Though seas between us braid ha' roared, (BURNS) from participating in the intellectual feasts he has spread before us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That is the time for trade and feasts and marriages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The feasts there were of the grandest in London, but there was not overmuch content therewith, except among the guests who sat at my lord's table. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They sat at his feasts, and he sat at theirs. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It drinks the dark blood of the inhabitant of the south, but it never feasts on the pale-faced Celt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- At Solutré in France there are traces of a great camping and feasting-place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the Captain had no heart to go a-feasting with Jos Sedley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- An occasion of feasting and festival. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The gross feasting, animal indulgence, and vulgar display of the earlier days of Roman prosperity were now tempered by a certain refinement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Maurice grew tired of this dreariness, and went off, in company with Helena, to where the feasting was going on. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Their bodies were heaped together, a leathern carpet was spread over them, and on this gruesome table Abul Abbas and his councillors feasted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many now alive, you remarked, well remembered persons who had not only seen the celebrated Roy M'Gregor, but had feasted, and even fought with him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- For an hour Tarzan feasted his eyes upon her while she wrote. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- By-and-by they came to a marvelous cave in the Hill of Pion and entered into it and feasted, and presently they hurried on again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She allowed herself one luxury, she saw the newspapers every day, and feasted on the praise and actions of the Protector. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- So he sat down there and feasted his eyes upon the earthly paradise of Damascus, and then went away without entering its gates. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Wanda