Meaning

2 senses
  1. (in compounds)A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.

    a Renaissance fest

    собра́ниеsobránije

  2. (in compounds)An event in which the act denoted by the previous noun occurs.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Why is open source such a sausage fest?

  2. This is a total dork-fest nerd bar.

  3. I attended the fest.

  4. Mark invited Jessica to a cosplay fest.

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
A gathering for a specified reason or occasion:

Origin

Borrowed from German Fest (“feast, festival, party”), from Middle High German fëst, from L

Borrowed from German Fest (“feast, festival, party”), from Middle High German fëst, from Latin festum, from which last are also English feast, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta (see these).

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Forms

plural: fests
Singularfest
Pluralfests

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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