1. An occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals. 2. An often regularly recurring program of cultural performances, exhibitions, or competitions: a film festival.3. Revelry; conviviality.
ADJECTIVE:
Of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival; festive.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English, festive, from Old French, from Medieval Latin fstivlis, from Latin fstvus, from fstus. See dhs- in Appendix I.
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