Noun: festival
| Singular | festival |
| Plural | festivals |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2009, “Deuteronomy 16:16”, in Holman Christian Standard Bible:]
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The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.
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A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.
Nouns inflected like festival
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive + -al. Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”). See: Middle English Nouns '
festival', Latin Nouns '
fēstīvus'.
Verbs referencing "festival"
Danish Nouns
festival, Dutch Nouns
festival, French Nouns
festival, Italian Nouns
festival, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
festival, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
festival, German Nouns
Festival, Polish Nouns
festiwal.