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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
festival
    n 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); "a drama festival" [syn: festival, fete]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Festival \Fes"ti*val\, a. [OF. festival, fr. L. festivum festive
   jollity, fr. festivus festive, gay. See Festive.]
   Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a
   festival; joyous; mirthful.
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         I cannot woo in festival terms.          --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Festi-val \Fes"ti-val\, n.
   A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy,
   civil or religious.
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         The morning trumpets festival proclaimed. --Milton.

   Syn: Feast; banquet; carousal. See Feast.
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Thesaurus Results for festival:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Mardi Gras, Saturnalia, anniversary, banquet, birthday, blowout, carnival, celebration, commemoration, do, entertainment, fair, feast, festive occasion, festivity, fete, field day, fiesta, gala, gala affair, gala day, great doings, high jinks, holiday, holy day, jamboree, kermis, party, picnic, red-letter day, waygoose, wayzgoose
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