different between festival vs observance

English

Etymology

From Old French festival, from Late Latin f?st?v?lis, from Latin f?st?vus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?st?v?l/

Adjective

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

Noun

festival (plural festivals)

1. (biblical) A feast or feast day.
   • Deuteronomy 16:16 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

     ¹⁶ All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

2. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
3. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
4. (Caribbean, Jamaican) fried cornbread

Related terms

• festal
• festive
• festivity
• festivities

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /f?s.ti?val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /f?s.ti?bal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fes.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Czech

Etymology

From English festival

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?st?val]
• Hyphenation: fe?s?ti?val

Noun

festival m inan

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

Declension

Further reading

• festival in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• festival in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival, from Old French festival, from Late Latin f?st?v?lis, from Latin f?st?vus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?s.ti?v?l/
• Hyphenation: fes?ti?val

Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

1. A festival (festive event or gathering).

Derived terms

• dorpsfestival
• festivalganger
• festivalisering
• festivalpubliek
• filmfestival
• kunstfestival
• muziekfestival
• songfestival
• theaterfestival

French

Etymology

From English festival, from Old French festival.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s.ti.val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?s.ti.val/, /fes.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (invariable)

1. festival
2. worker's festival

Synonyms

• mostra
• rassegna

Related terms

• festivaliere
• festivaliero

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From French festival, ultimately from Latin f?st?v?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /f??.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

1. festival

Romanian

Etymology

From French festival.

Noun

festival n (plural festivaluri)

1. festival

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. festival

Declension

See also

• praznik

Spanish

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

1. festival

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

Noun

festival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)

1. festival

Synonyms

• ?enlik

English

Alternative forms

• observancy (obsolete)
• observaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French observance, from Latin observantia. Equivalent of observe +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ?b-zûr?v?ns, IPA^(key): /?b?z?v?ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?z??v?ns/
• Hyphenation: ob?ser?vance

Noun

observance (countable and uncountable, plural observances)

1. The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
2. The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
3. Observation or the act of watching.
4. (religion) A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.
5. That which is to be observed.
6. Reverence; homage.

Antonyms

• misobservance

Derived terms

• hyperobservance
• misobservance

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p.s??.v??s/

Noun

observance f (plural observances)

1. observance

Related terms

• observable
• observant
• observateur
• observer

References

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