different between amusement vs feast

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French amusement, from amuser +? -ment.

Morphologically amuse +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mjuzm?nt/
• Hyphenation: a?muse?ment

Noun

amusement (countable and uncountable, plural amusements)

1. (uncountable) Entertainment.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 234a.

     This is some form of amusement you're talking about.

2. (countable) An activity that is entertaining or amusing, such as dancing, gunning, or fishing.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French amusement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.my.z??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: amu?se?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

amusement n (uncountable)

1. entertainment, amusement

Related terms

• amusant
• amuseren

French

Etymology

amuser +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.myz.m??/

Noun

amusement m (plural amusements)

1. amusement

Descendants

• ? English: amusement
• ? German: Amüsement

Further reading

• “amusement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?st, IPA^(key): /fi?st/
• Rhymes: -i?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?éh?s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek ???? (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete and fiesta.

Noun

feast (plural feasts)

1. A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

2. Something delightful

3. A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

   • The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

   • Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

Synonyms

• banquet

Derived terms

• afterfeast
• feast-day
• feast for the eyes
• feastful
• feastly
• Feast of Asses
• Feast of Fools
• forefeast
• Great Feasts
• love feast
• postfeast

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester, from Medieval Latin fest?re, from the noun. See above.

Verb

feast (third-person singular simple present feasts, present participle feasting, simple past and past participle feasted)

1. (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.

2. (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
3. (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).

4. (transitive, obsolete) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
   • 1597-1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

     Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.

Derived terms

• feaster
• feast one’s eyes

Translations

Anagrams

• Fates, Festa, TAFEs, fates, feats, festa, fetas