noun
1. a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated
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in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday
• Derivationally related forms: ↑ferial
• Hypernyms: ↑weekday
2. (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
• Topics: ↑Spanish
• Hypernyms: ↑celebration, ↑festivity
Useful english dictionary. 2012.