festival

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• feastiuall (obsolete)

From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). Displaced native Old English frēols. The noun is shortened from festival day, from Middle English festival dai, festiuall day (“feast day, festival”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstɪvl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstəv(ə)l/

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• Hyphenation: fes‧tiv‧al

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     the temple of the Gods […] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort […]

festival (countable and uncountable, plural festivals)

1. (biblical) A feast or feast day.
   • 2009, “Deuteronomy 16:16”, in Holman Christian Standard Bible:

     All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

2. An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.

   The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.

   A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.

3. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
4. (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.

• festal
• festive
• festivity
• festivities

Borrowed from Old French festival, from Latin fēstīvālis.

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festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

• festival de cinema (“film festival”)

• festa

• “festival” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Derived from English festival.

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• Hyphenation: fe‧s‧ti‧val

festival m inan

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

• “festival”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “festival”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “festival”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

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Borrowed from English festival, from Old French festival, from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛs.tiˌvɑl/

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• Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

1. a festival (festive event or gathering)

• dorpsfestival
• festivalganger
• festivalisering
• festivalpubliek
• filmfestival
• kunstfestival
• muziekfestival
• songfestival
• theaterfestival

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:

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• IPA^(key): /ˈfestivɑl/,

festival (genitive festivali, partitive festivali)

1. festival

• filmifestival

• “festival”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “festival”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “festival”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• festival in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

English festival, from Old French festival.

• IPA^(key): /fɛs.ti.val/

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festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

• → Greek: φεστιβάλ (festivál)
• → Turkish: festival

• “festival”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

festival

1. festival

• festivale

Borrowed from English festival.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛ.sti.val/, (traditional) /fe.stiˈval/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛstival, (traditional) -al
• Hyphenation: fè‧sti‧val, (traditional) fe‧sti‧vàl

festival m (invariable)

1. festival
2. worker's festival

• mostra
• rassegna

• festivaliere
• festivaliero

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

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From Latin festivalis, via English festival.

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

1. a festival

• “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

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From Latin festivalis, via English festival.

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

1. a festival

• “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From French festival, ultimately from Latin fēstīvālis.

festival m (plural festivais)

1. festival

Borrowed from French festival.

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festival n (plural festivaluri)

1. festival

festìvāl m (Cyrillic spelling фестѝва̄л)

1. festival

• praznik

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festival m inan (declension pattern of dub)

1. festival

• “festival”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

• IPA^(key): /festiˈbal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: fes‧ti‧val

festival m (plural festivales)

1. festival

• “festival”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

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festival c

1. a festival (event)

   gå på festival

   go to a festival

• pridefestival

• festival in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• festival in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

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Borrowed from French festival.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: fes‧ti‧val

festival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)

1. festival

   Synonym: şenlik

• “festival”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “festival”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı