feast

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//ˈfiːst//
/[ˈfɪi̯st]/

A holiday, festival, especially a religious one

substantivo

1
A holiday, festival, especially a religious one
The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
2
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
3
figuradoSomething delightful and satisfying.
It was a feast for the eyes.
Lenin took the view, which is still treated as a a dogma by the Communist movement, that revisionism came into being as an ideology reflecting the interests of the aristocracy of the working class, whom the bourgeoisie permitted to enjoy the 'left-overs' of their feast of prosperity.

Etimologia

From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate.

verbo

1
To partake in a feast, or large meal.
I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
2
To dwell upon (something) with delight.
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.
3
To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
He that shall see this day, and live old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”
His ancestor, he said, had been feasted there, when he went forward with the then Lord Ravenswood to the fatal battle of Flodden, in which they both fell.
We feasted them after the victory.
4
obsoletoTo serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.

Etimologia

From Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester, from Medieval Latin festāre, from the noun. See above.

Formas

plural: feasts
pretérito: feasted
particípio passado: feasted
gerúndio: feasting
3.ª pessoa do singular: feasts

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feast · A holiday, festival, especially a religious one

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