feast

[Feast]

A feast is a huge, delicious meal that's served at a party or celebration. You might have a feast to celebrate the last day of school every year.

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A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

Noun
something experienced with great delight; "a feast for the eyes"

Noun
an elaborate party (often outdoors)

Noun
a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread"

Noun
a ceremonial dinner party for many people

Verb
gratify; "feed one''s eyes on a gorgeous view"

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Verb
partake in a feast or banquet

Verb
provide a feast or banquet for

n.
A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

n.
A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.

n.
That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.

n.
To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.

n.
To be highly gratified or delighted.

v. t.
To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.

v. t.
To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.

Feast

Feast , n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. f'88te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. Fair, n., Festal, Fte.] 1. A festival; a 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.

&hand; Ecclesiastical fasts are called immovable when they always occur on the same day of the year; otherwise they are called movable. 2. A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.

Enough is as good as a feast.

Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords.

3. That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.

The feast of reason, and the flow of soul.

Feast day, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemoative festival. Syn. -- Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal; festivity; festival. -- Feast, Banquet, Festival, Carousal. A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abudance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained indulgence in frolic and drink.

Feast

Feast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Feasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Feasting.] [OE. festen, cf. OF. fester to rest from work, F. f'88ter to celebrate a holiday. See Feast, n.] 1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.

And his sons went and feasted in their houses.

2. To be highly gratified or delighted.

With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.

Feast

Feast, v. t. 1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. Hayward. 2. To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.

Feast your ears with the music a while.

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.

To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.

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Usage Examples

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.

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Other Usage Examples

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.