FESTIVAL meaning: Celebration featuring music, food, activities

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word FESTIVAL:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

festival: Merriam-Webster
festival: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
festival: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
festival: Collins English Dictionary
festival: Vocabulary.com
Festival, festival: Wordnik
festival: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
festival: Wiktionary
festival: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
festival: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
festival: Infoplease Dictionary
Festival, festival: Dictionary.com
festival: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Festival (Anglicanism), Festival (Jon Oliva's Pain album), Festival (Lee Ritenour album), Festival (Santana album), Festival (TV series), Festival (disambiguation), Festival (dumpling), Festival, The Festival (film), The Festival (short story), The Festival: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Festival: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
festival: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
festival: Rhymezone
festival, festival, festival (het), festival (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
festival: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
festival: FreeDictionary.org
festival: Mnemonic Dictionary
festival: TheFreeDictionary.com
festival: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
festival: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

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Business (1 matching dictionary)

festival: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

festival: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (festival)

▸ adjective:  Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
▸ noun:  (biblical) A feast or feast day.
▸ noun:  An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
▸ noun:  In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
▸ noun:  (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.

Similar:

fete, fiesta, feast, fest, carnival, concert, festivity, extravaganza, event, celebration, more...

Opposite:

mourning, funeral, solitude, silence, grief

Types:

carnival, fair, mardi gras, parade, more...

Phrases:

Film festival, Music festival, jazz festival, harvest festival, Spring Festival, more...

Adjectives:

annual, great, religious, first, day, national, important, high, grand, popular, international

Colors:

red, yellow, orange, green, blue, more...