Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

movable feast

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English

Syllables: mov-able feast
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A day of note, frequently a Christian festival, whose date changes from year to year according to a set of rules.

Example Sentences

"The Sementivae was a movable feast in January for the spring sowing with offerings made to Tellus and Ceres, agricultural deities."

Inflected Forms

movable feasts (plural) moveable feast (alternative)

Synonyms

moveable feast

Antonyms

fixed feast immovable feast

Questions

What does movable feast mean?: A day of note, frequently a Christian festival, whose date changes from year to year according to a set of rules.

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