different between pastime vs feast
pastime
English
Alternative forms
- passtime, pass-time (both obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, calque of Middle French passetemps.
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /?pæs.ta?m/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??s.ta?m/
Noun
pastime (plural pastimes)
- Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
- Synonyms: kill-time; see also Thesaurus:hobby
Translations
Further reading
- pastime in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Verb
pastime (third-person singular simple present pastimes, present participle pastiming, simple past and past participle pastimed)
- (intransitive, obsolete) to sport; to amuse oneself
Derived terms
- pastimer
- pastiming
Anagrams
- impaste, site map, sitemap
pastime From the web:
- what pastimes should knights participate in
- what pastime mean
- what pastime did jane enjoy
- what did knights do for fun
- what do knights do for fun
- what did knights do in their spare time
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
feast From the web:
- what feast day is today
- what feast day is december 12
- what feast day is december 8th
- what feast ends the liturgical year
you may also like
- pastime vs feast
- obnoxious vs reproachful
- justification vs cxcusc
- involve vs bewilder
- negate vs screech
- irritated vs indignant
- stillness vs composure
- bustle vs disease
- affair vs care
- diminutive vs limited
- charitable vs extravagant
- harmful vs scandalous
- scoot vs straggle
- spicy vs gripping
- genial vs understanding
- carcass vs residue
- classic vs garden-variety
- unanswerable vs indubitable
- plug vs stagger
- incandescent vs quick-witted