different between supper vs feast

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?p?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sopere, from Old French soper, from sope (“soup”). Compare French souper.

Noun

supper (countable and uncountable, plural suppers)

1. Food consumed before going to bed.
2. Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
3. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, slang) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.

   a fish supper; a pizza supper

Synonyms

• (meal): dinner; see also Thesaurus:meal

Derived terms

• kitchen supper
• Last Supper
• Lord's Supper
• lupper
• brupper

Related terms

• soup

Translations

Verb

supper (third-person singular simple present suppers, present participle suppering, simple past and past participle suppered)

1. To consume a snack before retiring.
2. To eat dinner (see above).

Translations

Etymology 2

sup +? -er

Noun

supper (plural suppers)

1. A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).

Translations

Anagrams

• Ruppes, uppers

Danish

Noun

supper c

1. indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

supper m or f

1. indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

supper f

1. indefinite plural of suppe

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