festival

See also: Festival

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛstəvəl/
  • (file)

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

Translations


Catalan

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

  1. festival

Czech

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

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

  1. festival

Derived terms


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛs.ti.val/
  • (file)
  • (file)

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

  1. festival

Further reading


Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛstival/, /festiˈval/

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival.

Noun

festival m (invariable)

  1. festival
  2. worker's festival

Synonyms

  • festivaliere
  • festivaliero

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

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

  1. a festival

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

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

  1. a festival

References


Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin festivalis.

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

  1. festival

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

  1. festival

Declension

See also


Spanish

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

  1. festival

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

Noun

festival (definite accusative festivalı, plural festivallar)

  1. festival

Synonyms

  • şenlik
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