different between feast vs foy

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

English

Etymology

From Middle French foy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

foy (countable and uncountable, plural foys)

1. (obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.
2. (obsolete) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
   • 1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661, 2006, Echo Library, page 124,

     To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French foi.

Noun

foy f (plural foys)

1. faith
   • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:

     Saigneur Dieu oste moy de ce torment, auquel ces traitres chiens me detiennent, pour la maintenance de ta foy.

     Lord God remove me from this torment in which these traiterous dogs are holding, to help me keep your faith.

Descendants

• French: foi

Portuguese

Verb

foy

1. Obsolete spelling of foi