different between feast vs carnival
feast
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)
- A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
- Something delightful
- 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)
- (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.
- (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
- (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
- (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.
- 1597-1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
Derived terms
- feaster
- feast one’s eyes
Translations
Anagrams
- Fates, Festa, TAFEs, fates, feats, festa, fetas
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carnival
English
Etymology
From French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, possibly from the Latin phrase carnem lev?men ("meat dismissal"). Other scholars suggest Latin carnu?lia ("meat-based country feast") or carrus nav?lis ("boat wagon", "float") instead.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kæ?n?v?l/, /k??n??v?l/ (referring to specific festivals in various countries)
Noun
carnival (plural carnivals)
- Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
- A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
- (US) A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
Derived terms
Translations
References
See also
- mardi gras
- Mardi Gras on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- what carnival ships sail out of new orleans
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