feast
/ˈfiːst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.95 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A holiday, festival, especially a religious one
noun
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
noun
name
A surname from Middle English.
Example Sentences
- "The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord."
- "Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover."
- "We had a feast to celebrate the harvest."
- "It was a feast for the eyes."
- "Lenin took the view, which is still treated as a a dogma by the Communist movement, that revisionism came into being as an ideology reflecting the interests of the aristocracy of the working class, whom the bourgeoisie permitted to enjoy the 'left-overs' of their feast of prosperity."
- "I feasted on turkey and dumplings."
Etymology
From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate.
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