noun
a day designated for feasting
• Syn: ↑fete day
• Hypernyms: ↑holiday
• Hyponyms:
↑Rosh Hashanah, ↑Rosh Hashana, ↑Rosh Hashonah, ↑Rosh Hashona, ↑Jewish New Year, ↑movable feast, ↑moveable feast, ↑Circumcision, ↑Feast of the Circumcision, ↑January 1, ↑Christmas, ↑Christmas Day, ↑Xmas, ↑Dec 25, ↑Thanksgiving, ↑Thanksgiving Day, ↑Id al-Fitr, ↑Id al-Adha, ↑Feast of Sacrifice
• Part Holonyms: ↑religious festival, ↑church festival
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nounEtymology: Middle English feste day, from feste festival + day
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a day, esp. a church holiday, for feasting and rejoicing.
[1250-1300; ME]
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feast day,
1. a day set aside for a celebration or festivity.
2. a religious festival: »
Muslim feast days.
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n. a day on which a celebration, esp. an annual Christian one, is held
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a day on which a Christian festival is held each year
Useful english dictionary. 2012.