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Festival   /fˈɛstəvəl/  /fˈɛstɪvəl/   Listen
Festival

noun
1.
A day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration.
2.
An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place).  Synonym: fete.



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"Festival" Quotes from Famous Books



... to thanksgiving is not furnished by brick walls and stone pavements. It is a rural festival. The smoke from scattered cottages should be slowly curling its way through frosty air. As we look forth from the low porch of the homestead, the ground lightly covered with snow, stretches off to a not distant horizon, broken ...
— Gifts of Genius - A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors • Various
... greatest festival the world has ever seen, the carnival, feria, fiesta to beat them all. Every year it's held in Munich. Makes the New Orleans Mardi gras look like a quilting party." He began to swing into the spirit of his description. "It originally started ...
— Unborn Tomorrow • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... A splendid festival was being celebrated at Innspruck on the 3d of October, and there were great rejoicings in the city. A message of love and joy had reached Innspruck from the headquarters of the Emperor Francis at Totis. Three of the former leaders of the Tyrolese insurrection, who had escaped ...
— Andreas Hofer • Lousia Muhlbach
... priests, or shooting the king's deer in Sherwood Forest, the famous outlaw and his merry men, clad all in green, were the popular heroes. On Robin Hood's day the whole population turned gaily out to celebrate his festival, never weary of singing or hearing the ballads which commemorated his exploits. Robin was a robber, but in times of disorder highway robbery has always been an honorable occupation, and the outlaws of ...
— A History of English Prose Fiction • Bayard Tuckerman
... of women came to worship at the temple on the great day of the festival! Till noon that day women only were allowed to enter: no men. How the women were dressed—in all the colours of the rainbow, red trousers being especially prominent! How they moved along on their little feet! Walk you along on your heels—as ...
— James Gilmour of Mongolia - His diaries, letters, and reports • James Gilmour


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