festschrift
/ˈfɛstˌʃɹɪft/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.23 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A collection of articles, essays, etc., published together as a memorial or tribute to an academic or some other respected person (often on their birthday).
noun
Alternative letter-case form of festschrift.
Example Sentences
- "Great preparations are being made and no effort spared to render the meeting a success. [...] The City of Berlin will present a Festschrift."
- "So many people of so many different kinds have been influenced by [Burrhus Frederic] Skinner's work and writings; who should be invited to contribute to a Festschrift volume?"
- "At the present time a scholar of religion who lectures, reads papers and publishes will inevitably find his various products dispersed over a number of periodicals, Festschriften and other volumes, mostly published in different countries and often in different languages."
- "The result can be an incoherent festschrift, which only the press of the university to which the recipient's career had been dedicated would undertake to publish. Certainly commercial publishers regard such festschriften as drugs on the market."
- "As much as they are tributes to scholars of extraordinary significance, festschrifts by their very nature are journeys taken together. Nurtured by previous journeys of the participants, they fuse the personal and professional, the sentimental and intellectual, which is exactly what gives any festschrift its special and distinctive character."
- "Incandenza's burial in Québec's L'Islet County was twice delayed by annular hyperfloration cycles. Cornell University Press announced plans for a festschrift."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Festschrift
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɛstˌʃɹɪft/
- British English: /ˈfɛstˌʃɹɪft/