festival

See also Festival

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɛstəvəl/

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Adjective

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

Noun

festival (plural festivals)

1. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
2. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

Related terms

• festive
• festivities

Translations

celebration

Afrikaans: fees (af) Arabic: عيد (ar) (3iid) m. Armenian: տոն (hy) (ton), փառատոն (hy) (p’aṙaton) Basque: jai (eu) Chamicuro: meesa Chinese: Mandarin: trad. 節慶, simpl. 节庆 (pinyin: jiéqìng), trad. 節日, simpl. 节日 (pinyin: jiérì), trad. 節, simpl. 节 (pinyin: jié) Danish: festival (da) c. Dutch: festival (nl) n. Esperanto: festivalo (eo) Finnish: festivaali (fi) French: festival (fr) m. Georgian: ფესტივალი (ka) (pʻestivali) German: Festival (de) n. Greek: φεστιβάλ (el) (festival) Irish: fleá (ga) f. Italian: mostra (it), rassegna (it), festival (it)

Japanese: 祭り (ja) (matsuri), 祭典 (ja) (saiten), 祝祭 (ja) (shukusai) Korean: 축제 (ko) (chukje) Latin: feria (la), festum (la), festivitas (la) f. Manx: ard-laa (gv) m. Norwegian: festival (no) m. Polish: festiwal (pl) m. Russian: фестиваль (ru) (festivál') m., праздник (ru) (prázdnik) m. Scottish Gaelic: féill (gd) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: фестивал (sh) m., Roman: festival (sh) m., praznik (sh) m. Spanish: festival (es) m. Swahili: tamasha (sw) Swedish: festival (sv) c. Telugu: పండుగ (panDuga) Turkish: festival (tr), şenlik (tr) Welsh: gŵyl (cy) m. and f.

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Czech

Noun

festival m.

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɛs.ti.val/

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Noun

festival m. (plural festivals)

1. festival

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Italian

Etymology

From English festival.

Noun

festival m. inv.

1. festival
2. worker's festival

Synonyms

• mostra
• rassegna

Related terms

• festivaliere
• festivaliero

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìvāl m. (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

1. festival

Declension

    declension of festival

	singular	plural
nominative	festìvāl	festivali
genitive	festivála	festivala
dative	festivalu	festivalima
accusative	festival	festivale
vocative	festivale	festivali
locative	festivalu	festivalima
instrumental	festivalom	festivalima

See also

• praznik

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Spanish

Noun

festival m. (plural festivales)

1. festival

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Turkish

Etymology

From French festival.

Noun

festival

1. festival

Synonyms

• şenlik