festival
A feast or feast dayA feast or feast day.
» There were many people at the festival.
На фестивалі було багато людей. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)A feast or feast day.
(countable, uncountable)An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.
A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.
Festival, Fest
фестива́льfestiválʹ, пра́здникprázdnik, пра́зднествоprázdnestvo
фестива́льfestyválʹ, свя́тоsvjáto
(countable, uncountable)In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
(Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable)Fried cornbread.
- an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)
- a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
Examples
318 sentencesThere were many people at the festival.
На фестивалі було багато людей. — deniko
Tom and Mary went to a music festival.
Том із Мері поїхали на музичний фестиваль. — deniko
deTom und Maria gingen auf einen Musikfesttag. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I'm going to the festival.
Я їду на фестиваль. — deniko
ruЯ еду на фестиваль. — marafon
The festival came to an end.
He organized a summer rock festival.
ruОн организовал летний рок-фестиваль. — Lenin_1917
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from LateFrom Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive + -al. Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).
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Forms
plural: festivalsSynonyms
1 synonyms- an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place):fete
Word family
24 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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