festival

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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 (countable and uncountable, 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.
3. (Caribbean, uncountable) fried cornbread

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Noun

festival m

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

Further reading

• festival in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• festival in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

1. festival

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛs.ti.val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Further reading

• “festival” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival.

Noun

festival m (invariable)

1. festival
2. worker's festival

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

From Latin festivalis.

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

1. festival

Noun

festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

1. festival

See also

• praznik

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

1. festival

Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

Noun

festival (definite accusative festivalı, plural festivallar)

1. festival