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mid-autumn festival

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English

Syllables
mid-au-tum-n fes-ti-val
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A harvest festival celebrated by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese people, held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar (between early September and early October).

noun

The East Asian festivals originating, inspired, or co-opted from the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.

Etymology

A calque of Chinese 中秋節 /中秋节 (Zhōngqiūjié).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Mid-Autumn Festivals (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

mooncake

Synonyms

Moon Festival Zhongqiu Zhongqiu Festival Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival Chinese Moon Festival Chinese Thanksgiving Chinese Harvest Festival Tsukimi Tsukimi Festival Otsukimi Otsukimi Festival Japanese Mid-Autumn Festival

Questions

What does mid-autumn festival mean?
A harvest festival celebrated by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese people, held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar (between early September and early October).
Where does mid-autumn festival come from?
It is traced to Chinese.

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