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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

Borrowed from Georgian ?????? (tamada), from (Proto-?)Circassian *t?amada (compare Adyghe ???????? (t??m?t?, “foreman of a village; boss; master; chairman; (dated) husband”), Kabardian ???????? (t??m?d?, “foreman of a village; boss; master; chairman; (dialectal) bridegroom, wooer”)), probably from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (damat, “bridegroom; son-in-law; sovereign's brother-in-law”) (from Persian ?????? (dâmâd, “bridegroom; son-in-law; father-in-law; sovereign's brother-in-law; lover, wooer”)) with the ending reshaped under the influence of Kabardian ??? (?d?, “father”).

The suggestion that the word is derived from a blend of ???? (tavi, “head”) +? ?????? (magida, “table”) (in the sense of a person at the head of a table) is a folk etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??m?d?/, /?t??m?d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?m?d?/, /?t?m?d?/
• Hyphenation: ta?ma?da

Noun

tamada (plural tamadas)

1. (chiefly Georgia) A toastmaster at a feast in the Caucasus, especially in Georgia.

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Further reading

• tamada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia