different between feast vs repast

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

Old French repast, from the verb repaistre, from Latin repascere, from pascere (“to graze”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p??st/
• (US, Northern England) IPA^(key): /???pæst/

Noun

repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)

1. (now literary) A meal.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast.

   • 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like

     "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast."

2. (archaic, uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.

Translations

Verb

repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To take food.

Anagrams

• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps

Old French

Noun

repast m (oblique plural repaz or repatz, nominative singular repaz or repatz, nominative plural repast)

1. a meal

Descendants

• ? English: repast
• French: repas