Definition of feast in English:

feast

noun fiːstfist

1A large meal, typically a celebratory one.
a wedding feast
Example sentencesExamples
- Gawain called the meal a feast, but his hosts brushed off the compliment, saying the next meal would be better.
- Speaking of food, the daily supper feasts were a copious spread of enormous proportion.
- Great battles were fought and important conferences were planned, pacts signed, and feasts and religious ceremonies celebrated in its shade.
- We collect donations and the leftovers of wedding feasts and feed the poor.
- It was a must at wedding feasts, despite the various dals, since, unlike the oily and rich dishes, it soothed the stomach.
- Traditional elements of the festival, including the gourmet dinner, restaurant meal deals and roving feasts, will remain.
- The party sat around the table, eating the celebration feast.
- Medieval banquets, Viking feasts, dinner parties, wedding ceremonies, conferences and exhibitions: you name it, this venue can do it.
- On weekends, they prepare earth ovens and bake food for the evening meal and a Sunday feast.
- At wedding celebrations and religious feasts, coffee is drunk.
- Collins was reported to have chosen the head chef at the hotel, John Williams, to prepare the wedding feast.
- Again there is a religious ceremony and a feast.
- Most feasts and celebrations have religious aspects.
- The guests had gathered to enjoy a rich meal, celebrating the first day of the wedding feast.
- He also wishes to extend to you an invitation to dine with him at a feast of dancing and delights.
- The peppers' smoky-sweet flavor makes a satisfying feast out of any meal.
- The profane-sounding name simply mirrors the character of the adjacent area used for various purposes, among other things joyful cult celebrations attended by ritual dances and feasts.
- There was even a nice crop of berries and some fruit trees nearby and they had quite the feast for their meal.
- The wedding feast is the highpoint of any marriage function.
- On the same night that the game's elite were tucking into a feast at the champions dinner, here was Daly selling merchandise over the counter of his ramshackle trailer.
Synonyms
banquet, celebration meal, lavish dinner, sumptuous repast, large meal, formal meal, formal dinner
treat, entertainment, jollification
revels, festivities
informal blowout, feed, junket, spread, binge, bash, do
British informal nosh-up, beanfeast, bunfight, beano, scoff, slap-up meal, tuck-in
1. 1.1 A plentiful supply of something enjoyable.
  the concert season offers a feast of classical music
  Example sentencesExamples
  The general public and international visitors were treated to a feast of squash that has left them hungry for more.
  While the game didn't offer a feast of goals for fans back home to enjoy during their World Cup breakfast, it was a case of the result counting for far more than the performance.
  Twelve students from years nine and ten cooked up a feast of Asian treats for members of staff, with retiring head teacher John Roberts among those tucking in.
  There's a feast of films vying for moviegoers' attention this season.
  And for our listeners this morning, we have a delectation of delights, a feast of fantasies.
  The room is a feast of gilt and opulent yellow-patterned fabrics, and it has a floor of aged, biscuit-brown polished wood rather than the almost inescapable blond parquet.
  The Party was then treated to a feast of food, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
  Days like this one are memorable when a large group is treated to such a feast of fine golf.
  They are men and women in blue, numbering 15, and all set to treat you to a feast of a comic opera.
  And this season's contest, to be held on March 29 at Percy Road, should be no different with a feast of rugby set to be on offer.
  In Italy, spring offers a feast of events for the art lover.
  Furthermore, a stroll around the campus offers a visual feast you don't have to be a fine artist to appreciate.
  People who actually recognise good music when they see it realise that there is a lot more to this band than may first meet the eye, and that to listen to them is to enjoy a feast of musical delights.
  Tooting is preparing itself for a feast of Eastern delight to celebrate the culture of the Asian subcontinent.
  According to the philosophy, each meal should be a feast for all of your senses.
  The week will then offer a feast of music and poetry.
  Only a religious feast can ultimately satisfy human need.
  For your pleasure is a feast of the finest entertainers in the land!
  Audiences will be treated to a feast of humour and stunning visual effects in a non-stop, action-packed event for the whole family to enjoy.
  Whether you come from north or south, by road or by rail, or by air to the recently improved airfield, you enjoy a feast of coastal scenery which helps you to relax, ready for holiday making.
  Synonyms
  treat, delight, joy, pleasure, gratification
2An annual religious celebration.
as modifier a feast day
Synonyms
fete, gala day, fair, festival, carnival, pageant, jubilee, jamboree, party, garden party, celebration
1. 2.1 A day dedicated to a particular saint.
  the feast of St John
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was therefore fitting that on the feast of the Assumption, the Church, dedicated to Our Lady, was packed to overflowing.
  Popular religious and national festivals and major feasts of the Christian year are also important and reveal the presence of popular religion in Greece.
  The day of the assassination bid was also the feast of Our Lady of Fatima.
  For each Sunday, principal feasts, and some holy days, Pryce chose a short poem or prose selection that shares a theme with readings assigned to that day.
  The day of the coronation was appointed for the day January 29, during the feast of Candlemas.
  But we like to keep our religious feasts neatly separated.
  Even gloomy January is a good time to visit the region - at the end of the month, every village celebrates the feast of Saint Vincent, the patron saint of winegrowers.
  Do not Christmas and Easter, and almost all the Christian feasts, have a non-Christian origin?
  The most distinctive buildings, events, customs, and ideas are Catholic, from the many community churches and chapels, to the saints' days' feasts, to the week-long wakes in the homes of the dead.
  I know that the Mayor of Pisa, if he had any say in it at all, would like the tower to be reopened in June next year to coincide with the feast of their patron saint.
  The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
  Each province has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint, so that there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in the country.
  One is the feast of St. Leonard, the patron saint of livestock, who is honored each November with festive horse-and-cart parades.
  In Russian tradition, name days - feasts of major saints - are more important than birthdays.
  On February 14th is celebrated the feast of two saints named Valentine.
  On the island itself, due to the dominance of Roman Catholicism, the feast of saints and other Church holy days are observed.
  The popular Christian life in its annual liturgical cycle was a life punctuated by feasts, vigils, fasts, and celebrations.
  Villages celebrate their patron saints' feasts at various times during the year.
  We recommended for example to incorporate religious feasts let's say as national holidays and we made some proposal for the development of a better knowledge of religious thought.
  In a more vigorous vein he wrote some church music, including a Mass in the old style and the famous music for Vespers on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  Synonyms
  festival, religious festival, feast day, saint's day, holy day, holiday, fete, festivity, celebration
2. 2.2British An annual village festival.
  the feast was the highlight of the village year
  Example sentencesExamples
  Festivals were holidays and feasts and the Church even said there should be no fasting on such days.
  The growing community spirit is also set to lead to the resurrection next June of the annual village feast, which was last held in the 1930s.
  Her case studies only work if a crucial element, ‘custom,’ is defined as habitual practice or used to refer to plebeian feasts and festivals.
  At Kelfield, near Selby, locals got a good soaking in a medieval ducking stool - a star attraction at the annual village feast held on Saturday.
  There was a procession through the village, and a feast given for all the folk as a gift of the hand of Godwulf.

verb fiːstfist

[no object]

1Eat and drink sumptuously.
the men would congregate and feast after hunting
Example sentencesExamples
- I have bats upstairs who will feast tonight, and that's good.
- In the city they spend their days feasting, gaming, love-making and partaking of beautiful music.
- Achilles slaughters sheep and they feast and drink.
- There, musicians played and people danced and sang and drank and feasted.
- They talked, feasted for hours on rich Italian food, and drank heavily - all for free.
- Jordan quickly consumed himself in playing with the toy as he feasted happily upon the sugars provided.
- The assistant peered through the window and saw a group of people feasting, drinking, and reveling.
- They shared, according to Tacitus, a war orientated Teutonic lifestyle with a veneration for the portentous powers of sage women and a predilection for feasting and drinking to excess.
- They and the rest are feasting at his table.
- He was feasted for a year and then cast out of the city.
Synonyms
gorge on, dine on, eat one's fill of, indulge in, overindulge in
eat, devour, consume, partake of
banquet
informal binge on, binge-eat, stuff one's face with, stuff oneself with, stuff down, shovel down, wolf down, pig oneself on, pig out on, make a pig of oneself on, cram in, tuck into, put away, pack away, make short work of, get outside of, get one's laughing gear round
British informal gollop, shift
North American informal snarf
rare gourmandize
1. 1.1feast on Eat large quantities of.
  we sat feasting on barbecued chicken and beer
  Example sentencesExamples
  The children feasted on hot dogs, barbecued by their childminders' husbands.
  On the canopy above, there are monkeys racing across the branches, and a troupe of squirrel monkeys, also feasting on ants.
  There, in the clearing, a wolf was feasting on a rabbit it had brought down.
  Amanda feasts on some vegetables, a tossed salad here and there, some fruit and pieces of chicken to make up her protein intake.
  He regularly feasts on giant meals of low-fat, high-fiber foods like cabbage, which stay in the stomach longer before breaking down.
  He walked straight past his expectant friend, dipped his good hand into one of his pockets and sat down, feasting on a large slab of cheese.
  When he was finished, he sat beside Michael and they shared out the provisions and feasted on chicken and wine.
  But for those still struggling to get kids chomping on carrots and feasting on fruit, there are a number of strategies to coax them into a healthier and more varied food regime.
  Three teenage schoolgirls were feasting on deep-fried chicken and chips and looked on, admiring the grace and agility of the couples.
  But, whereas the vast majority of youngsters tucked into chips and feasted on cake, fresh fruit and yoghurts were not as popular.
  In the summer they have parties on each allotment in turn, feasting on barbecues and getting sloshed on homemade wines.
  Without supervision, the goat will gobble the cabbage whereas the wolf will not hesitate to feast on the goat.
  I'm lucky, for I've got an invite to a bash in the Drill Hall where I spend the night dancing, drinking and feasting on mutton soup, pies and sandwiches.
  Our last night was spent feasting on stuffed peppers prepared by a Turkish chef who had trained in Germany.
  Synonyms
  eat, eat up, devour, ingest, swallow, gobble, gobble up, wolf down, gorge oneself on, feast on
2. 1.2with object Give (someone) a plentiful and delicious meal.
  they feasted the deputation
  Example sentencesExamples
  Women especially would just love to impress their spouse by feasting them with the tasty dishes.
  The night before Greatgrandfather left, the village feasted him and sang music and poured jugs of beer over his head.
  For them, festivals are full of hassles, not to mention, the deluge of friends and relatives, who have to be feasted with the appropriate traditional dishes in the appropriate quantities.
  It was at these capitals where the chief would feast his people after collecting very beautiful and attractive sand, which he spread around the palace.
  In ancient times, before a battle, a general would feast his soldiers with alcohol and meat.
  Synonyms
  hold a banquet for, throw a feast for, wine and dine, ply with food and drink, give someone a meal, feed, cater for
  entertain lavishly, regale, treat, fete, throw a party for, play host to

Phrases

ghost (or skeleton) at the feast

A person or thing that brings gloom to an otherwise pleasant occasion.
Example sentencesExamples
- The party has become used to such phantom presences: for the past four years, its former idol appeared like the proverbial ghost at the feast to deliver his speech, take the plaudits, yet shun the centre stage.
- But his eyes were drawn nevertheless to the filthy bundle of rags, the skeleton at the feast.
- It is also the ghost at the feast of much polite society in Northern Ireland.

feast one's eyes on

Gaze at with pleasure.
Example sentencesExamples
- We found ourselves running round the museum as closing time approached, trying to feast our eyes on as many of the archaeological treasurers as possible, devouring every ancient tale and fable.
- There is a tea room for drinks and snacks and you can even feast your eyes on some of the displays set out there too.
- There was almost a riot outside the emperor's throne in the Forbidden City: none of the elderly Chinese tourists wanted to miss the chance of feasting their eyes on that lavish golden sight.
- There was so much to feast the eyes, and stomach, on.
- Marie helped me up, and we feasted our eyes on how big it was.
- This event is being shared by over 40 countries and here in Sligo the line up is one to feast your eyes on.
- So you enter the exhibition through a scrap metal maze and exit via a talking house - and in between, you can feast your eyes on all the fantastic art that can be made out of metal, paper and plastic.
- We sat in the second half of the restaurant munching on warm bread and butter while we feasted our eyes on the menu.
- Those gathered for the event feasted their eyes on the works of art produced by these children displayed at the pizzeria.
- As we travelled through the country on good highways to the Baltic Sea we feasted our eyes on rich farmland and well kept farm homes.
Synonyms
observe, view, look at, eye, gaze at, stare at, gape at, peer at

feast or famine

Either too much of something or too little.
your cash flow has been feast or famine recently
Example sentencesExamples
- It's been feast or famine at the company.
- It's feast or famine at golf clubs and we're feasting at the moment.
- The cycle of feast or famine in production may not be as extreme as it once was but it still exists and there can be significant dry spells when a large-scale film facility would be filled with the sounds of silence.
- However, this still is a team driven by power, which means it often will be feast or famine.
- In many cases, the power game can become feast or famine.
- It's either feast or famine for the fragile Canadian feature-film industry.
- After having come off another slow period I decided that a small part-time job might help to temper the feast or famine cycle.
- ‘Regarding bird-watching, it's known to be feast or famine,’ he said.
- It's either feast or famine with Terrence Long.

Derivatives

feaster

noun ˈfiːstəˈfistər

The animals provide a high level of nutrition for the feasters, and the act of eating them is a sharing of flesh and blood.
Example sentencesExamples
- It can be seen in the way in which animals for slaughter may be placed in order around the altar, or, alternatively, the prospective feasters may arrange themselves around a single animal.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French feste (noun), fester (verb), from Latin festa, neuter plural of festus 'joyous'. Compare with fete and fiesta.

People have been celebrating special occasions with a feast since the Middle Ages, and appropriately the word goes back to Latin festus meaning ‘joyous’. Festival (Middle English) derives from the closely related Latin word festivus. A festoon (mid 17th century) comes from the same root, being at first a festival ornament. In the Christian Church the date of some festivals like Easter, known as movable feasts, varies from year to year. A skeleton at the feast is someone or something who casts gloom on what should be a happy occasion. This goes back to a story told in the 5th century bc by the Greek historian Herodotus. In ancient Egypt a painted carving of a body in a coffin was carried round the room at parties, and shown to guests with the warning that this was how they would be one day.

Rhymes

arriviste, artiste, batiste, beast, dirigiste, east, least, Mideast, modiste, northeast, piste, priest, southeast, uncreased, unreleased, yeast

Definition of feast in US English:

feast

nounfēstfist

1A large meal, typically one in celebration of something.
a wedding feast
Example sentencesExamples
- On the same night that the game's elite were tucking into a feast at the champions dinner, here was Daly selling merchandise over the counter of his ramshackle trailer.
- Collins was reported to have chosen the head chef at the hotel, John Williams, to prepare the wedding feast.
- At wedding celebrations and religious feasts, coffee is drunk.
- It was a must at wedding feasts, despite the various dals, since, unlike the oily and rich dishes, it soothed the stomach.
- The guests had gathered to enjoy a rich meal, celebrating the first day of the wedding feast.
- Medieval banquets, Viking feasts, dinner parties, wedding ceremonies, conferences and exhibitions: you name it, this venue can do it.
- Great battles were fought and important conferences were planned, pacts signed, and feasts and religious ceremonies celebrated in its shade.
- Again there is a religious ceremony and a feast.
- Gawain called the meal a feast, but his hosts brushed off the compliment, saying the next meal would be better.
- He also wishes to extend to you an invitation to dine with him at a feast of dancing and delights.
- There was even a nice crop of berries and some fruit trees nearby and they had quite the feast for their meal.
- Traditional elements of the festival, including the gourmet dinner, restaurant meal deals and roving feasts, will remain.
- The wedding feast is the highpoint of any marriage function.
- Most feasts and celebrations have religious aspects.
- Speaking of food, the daily supper feasts were a copious spread of enormous proportion.
- The party sat around the table, eating the celebration feast.
- On weekends, they prepare earth ovens and bake food for the evening meal and a Sunday feast.
- The peppers' smoky-sweet flavor makes a satisfying feast out of any meal.
- The profane-sounding name simply mirrors the character of the adjacent area used for various purposes, among other things joyful cult celebrations attended by ritual dances and feasts.
- We collect donations and the leftovers of wedding feasts and feed the poor.
Synonyms
banquet, celebration meal, lavish dinner, sumptuous repast, large meal, formal meal, formal dinner
1. 1.1 A plentiful supply of something enjoyable, especially for the mind or senses.
  the concert season offers a feast of classical music
  Example sentencesExamples
  Twelve students from years nine and ten cooked up a feast of Asian treats for members of staff, with retiring head teacher John Roberts among those tucking in.
  The general public and international visitors were treated to a feast of squash that has left them hungry for more.
  Tooting is preparing itself for a feast of Eastern delight to celebrate the culture of the Asian subcontinent.
  And this season's contest, to be held on March 29 at Percy Road, should be no different with a feast of rugby set to be on offer.
  According to the philosophy, each meal should be a feast for all of your senses.
  The room is a feast of gilt and opulent yellow-patterned fabrics, and it has a floor of aged, biscuit-brown polished wood rather than the almost inescapable blond parquet.
  Days like this one are memorable when a large group is treated to such a feast of fine golf.
  There's a feast of films vying for moviegoers' attention this season.
  While the game didn't offer a feast of goals for fans back home to enjoy during their World Cup breakfast, it was a case of the result counting for far more than the performance.
  People who actually recognise good music when they see it realise that there is a lot more to this band than may first meet the eye, and that to listen to them is to enjoy a feast of musical delights.
  Only a religious feast can ultimately satisfy human need.
  The Party was then treated to a feast of food, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
  Furthermore, a stroll around the campus offers a visual feast you don't have to be a fine artist to appreciate.
  For your pleasure is a feast of the finest entertainers in the land!
  In Italy, spring offers a feast of events for the art lover.
  Audiences will be treated to a feast of humour and stunning visual effects in a non-stop, action-packed event for the whole family to enjoy.
  The week will then offer a feast of music and poetry.
  Whether you come from north or south, by road or by rail, or by air to the recently improved airfield, you enjoy a feast of coastal scenery which helps you to relax, ready for holiday making.
  They are men and women in blue, numbering 15, and all set to treat you to a feast of a comic opera.
  And for our listeners this morning, we have a delectation of delights, a feast of fantasies.
  Synonyms
  treat, delight, joy, pleasure, gratification
2. 1.2 An annual religious celebration.
  Synonyms
  fete, gala day, fair, festival, carnival, pageant, jubilee, jamboree, party, garden party, celebration
3. 1.3 A day dedicated to a particular saint.
  the feast of St. Joseph
  Example sentencesExamples
  Do not Christmas and Easter, and almost all the Christian feasts, have a non-Christian origin?
  In a more vigorous vein he wrote some church music, including a Mass in the old style and the famous music for Vespers on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  Villages celebrate their patron saints' feasts at various times during the year.
  We recommended for example to incorporate religious feasts let's say as national holidays and we made some proposal for the development of a better knowledge of religious thought.
  On February 14th is celebrated the feast of two saints named Valentine.
  I know that the Mayor of Pisa, if he had any say in it at all, would like the tower to be reopened in June next year to coincide with the feast of their patron saint.
  Even gloomy January is a good time to visit the region - at the end of the month, every village celebrates the feast of Saint Vincent, the patron saint of winegrowers.
  The day of the coronation was appointed for the day January 29, during the feast of Candlemas.
  One is the feast of St. Leonard, the patron saint of livestock, who is honored each November with festive horse-and-cart parades.
  The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
  The popular Christian life in its annual liturgical cycle was a life punctuated by feasts, vigils, fasts, and celebrations.
  It was therefore fitting that on the feast of the Assumption, the Church, dedicated to Our Lady, was packed to overflowing.
  Each province has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint, so that there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in the country.
  On the island itself, due to the dominance of Roman Catholicism, the feast of saints and other Church holy days are observed.
  The most distinctive buildings, events, customs, and ideas are Catholic, from the many community churches and chapels, to the saints' days' feasts, to the week-long wakes in the homes of the dead.
  But we like to keep our religious feasts neatly separated.
  The day of the assassination bid was also the feast of Our Lady of Fatima.
  In Russian tradition, name days - feasts of major saints - are more important than birthdays.
  Popular religious and national festivals and major feasts of the Christian year are also important and reveal the presence of popular religion in Greece.
  For each Sunday, principal feasts, and some holy days, Pryce chose a short poem or prose selection that shares a theme with readings assigned to that day.
  Synonyms
  festival, religious festival, feast day, saint's day, holy day, holiday, fete, festivity, celebration

verbfēstfist

[no object]

1Eat and drink sumptuously.
the men would congregate and feast after hunting
Example sentencesExamples
- Achilles slaughters sheep and they feast and drink.
- The assistant peered through the window and saw a group of people feasting, drinking, and reveling.
- They talked, feasted for hours on rich Italian food, and drank heavily - all for free.
- They shared, according to Tacitus, a war orientated Teutonic lifestyle with a veneration for the portentous powers of sage women and a predilection for feasting and drinking to excess.
- They and the rest are feasting at his table.
- There, musicians played and people danced and sang and drank and feasted.
- Jordan quickly consumed himself in playing with the toy as he feasted happily upon the sugars provided.
- I have bats upstairs who will feast tonight, and that's good.
- He was feasted for a year and then cast out of the city.
- In the city they spend their days feasting, gaming, love-making and partaking of beautiful music.
Synonyms
gorge on, dine on, eat one's fill of, indulge in, overindulge in
1. 1.1feast on Eat large quantities of.
  we sat feasting on barbecued chicken and beer
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'm lucky, for I've got an invite to a bash in the Drill Hall where I spend the night dancing, drinking and feasting on mutton soup, pies and sandwiches.
  But for those still struggling to get kids chomping on carrots and feasting on fruit, there are a number of strategies to coax them into a healthier and more varied food regime.
  He walked straight past his expectant friend, dipped his good hand into one of his pockets and sat down, feasting on a large slab of cheese.
  When he was finished, he sat beside Michael and they shared out the provisions and feasted on chicken and wine.
  There, in the clearing, a wolf was feasting on a rabbit it had brought down.
  Three teenage schoolgirls were feasting on deep-fried chicken and chips and looked on, admiring the grace and agility of the couples.
  Amanda feasts on some vegetables, a tossed salad here and there, some fruit and pieces of chicken to make up her protein intake.
  Our last night was spent feasting on stuffed peppers prepared by a Turkish chef who had trained in Germany.
  The children feasted on hot dogs, barbecued by their childminders' husbands.
  But, whereas the vast majority of youngsters tucked into chips and feasted on cake, fresh fruit and yoghurts were not as popular.
  On the canopy above, there are monkeys racing across the branches, and a troupe of squirrel monkeys, also feasting on ants.
  Without supervision, the goat will gobble the cabbage whereas the wolf will not hesitate to feast on the goat.
  He regularly feasts on giant meals of low-fat, high-fiber foods like cabbage, which stay in the stomach longer before breaking down.
  In the summer they have parties on each allotment in turn, feasting on barbecues and getting sloshed on homemade wines.
  Synonyms
  eat, eat up, devour, ingest, swallow, gobble, gobble up, wolf down, gorge oneself on, feast on
2. 1.2with object Give (someone) a plentiful and delicious meal.
  he was feasted and invited to all the parties
  Example sentencesExamples
  Women especially would just love to impress their spouse by feasting them with the tasty dishes.
  It was at these capitals where the chief would feast his people after collecting very beautiful and attractive sand, which he spread around the palace.
  In ancient times, before a battle, a general would feast his soldiers with alcohol and meat.
  The night before Greatgrandfather left, the village feasted him and sang music and poured jugs of beer over his head.
  For them, festivals are full of hassles, not to mention, the deluge of friends and relatives, who have to be feasted with the appropriate traditional dishes in the appropriate quantities.
  Synonyms
  hold a banquet for, throw a feast for, wine and dine, ply with food and drink, give someone a meal, feed, cater for

Phrases

feast one's eyes on

Gaze at with pleasure.
Example sentencesExamples
- Those gathered for the event feasted their eyes on the works of art produced by these children displayed at the pizzeria.
- So you enter the exhibition through a scrap metal maze and exit via a talking house - and in between, you can feast your eyes on all the fantastic art that can be made out of metal, paper and plastic.
- This event is being shared by over 40 countries and here in Sligo the line up is one to feast your eyes on.
- There was so much to feast the eyes, and stomach, on.
- There was almost a riot outside the emperor's throne in the Forbidden City: none of the elderly Chinese tourists wanted to miss the chance of feasting their eyes on that lavish golden sight.
- Marie helped me up, and we feasted our eyes on how big it was.
- We sat in the second half of the restaurant munching on warm bread and butter while we feasted our eyes on the menu.
- There is a tea room for drinks and snacks and you can even feast your eyes on some of the displays set out there too.
- As we travelled through the country on good highways to the Baltic Sea we feasted our eyes on rich farmland and well kept farm homes.
- We found ourselves running round the museum as closing time approached, trying to feast our eyes on as many of the archaeological treasurers as possible, devouring every ancient tale and fable.
Synonyms
observe, view, look at, eye, gaze at, stare at, gape at, peer at

feast or famine

Either too much of something or too little.
Example sentencesExamples
- In many cases, the power game can become feast or famine.
- However, this still is a team driven by power, which means it often will be feast or famine.
- ‘Regarding bird-watching, it's known to be feast or famine,’ he said.
- It's either feast or famine with Terrence Long.
- It's feast or famine at golf clubs and we're feasting at the moment.
- It's either feast or famine for the fragile Canadian feature-film industry.
- It's been feast or famine at the company.
- After having come off another slow period I decided that a small part-time job might help to temper the feast or famine cycle.
- The cycle of feast or famine in production may not be as extreme as it once was but it still exists and there can be significant dry spells when a large-scale film facility would be filled with the sounds of silence.

skeleton at the feast

A person or thing that brings gloom or sadness to an otherwise pleasant or celebratory occasion.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is also the ghost at the feast of much polite society in Northern Ireland.
- The party has become used to such phantom presences: for the past four years, its former idol appeared like the proverbial ghost at the feast to deliver his speech, take the plaudits, yet shun the centre stage.
- But his eyes were drawn nevertheless to the filthy bundle of rags, the skeleton at the feast.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French feste (noun), fester (verb), from Latin festa, neuter plural of festus ‘joyous’. Compare with fête and fiesta.

单词	feast
释义	Definition of feast in English: feast noun fiːstfist 1A large meal, typically a celebratory one. a wedding feast Example sentencesExamples Gawain called the meal a feast, but his hosts brushed off the compliment, saying the next meal would be better. Speaking of food, the daily supper feasts were a copious spread of enormous proportion. Great battles were fought and important conferences were planned, pacts signed, and feasts and religious ceremonies celebrated in its shade. We collect donations and the leftovers of wedding feasts and feed the poor. It was a must at wedding feasts, despite the various dals, since, unlike the oily and rich dishes, it soothed the stomach. Traditional elements of the festival, including the gourmet dinner, restaurant meal deals and roving feasts, will remain. The party sat around the table, eating the celebration feast. Medieval banquets, Viking feasts, dinner parties, wedding ceremonies, conferences and exhibitions: you name it, this venue can do it. On weekends, they prepare earth ovens and bake food for the evening meal and a Sunday feast. At wedding celebrations and religious feasts, coffee is drunk. Collins was reported to have chosen the head chef at the hotel, John Williams, to prepare the wedding feast. Again there is a religious ceremony and a feast. Most feasts and celebrations have religious aspects. The guests had gathered to enjoy a rich meal, celebrating the first day of the wedding feast. He also wishes to extend to you an invitation to dine with him at a feast of dancing and delights. The peppers' smoky-sweet flavor makes a satisfying feast out of any meal. The profane-sounding name simply mirrors the character of the adjacent area used for various purposes, among other things joyful cult celebrations attended by ritual dances and feasts. There was even a nice crop of berries and some fruit trees nearby and they had quite the feast for their meal. The wedding feast is the highpoint of any marriage function. On the same night that the game's elite were tucking into a feast at the champions dinner, here was Daly selling merchandise over the counter of his ramshackle trailer. Synonyms banquet, celebration meal, lavish dinner, sumptuous repast, large meal, formal meal, formal dinner treat, entertainment, jollification revels, festivities informal blowout, feed, junket, spread, binge, bash, do British informal nosh-up, beanfeast, bunfight, beano, scoff, slap-up meal, tuck-in 1.1 A plentiful supply of something enjoyable. the concert season offers a feast of classical music Example sentencesExamples The general public and international visitors were treated to a feast of squash that has left them hungry for more. While the game didn't offer a feast of goals for fans back home to enjoy during their World Cup breakfast, it was a case of the result counting for far more than the performance. Twelve students from years nine and ten cooked up a feast of Asian treats for members of staff, with retiring head teacher John Roberts among those tucking in. There's a feast of films vying for moviegoers' attention this season. And for our listeners this morning, we have a delectation of delights, a feast of fantasies. The room is a feast of gilt and opulent yellow-patterned fabrics, and it has a floor of aged, biscuit-brown polished wood rather than the almost inescapable blond parquet. The Party was then treated to a feast of food, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Days like this one are memorable when a large group is treated to such a feast of fine golf. They are men and women in blue, numbering 15, and all set to treat you to a feast of a comic opera. And this season's contest, to be held on March 29 at Percy Road, should be no different with a feast of rugby set to be on offer. In Italy, spring offers a feast of events for the art lover. Furthermore, a stroll around the campus offers a visual feast you don't have to be a fine artist to appreciate. People who actually recognise good music when they see it realise that there is a lot more to this band than may first meet the eye, and that to listen to them is to enjoy a feast of musical delights. Tooting is preparing itself for a feast of Eastern delight to celebrate the culture of the Asian subcontinent. According to the philosophy, each meal should be a feast for all of your senses. The week will then offer a feast of music and poetry. Only a religious feast can ultimately satisfy human need. For your pleasure is a feast of the finest entertainers in the land! Audiences will be treated to a feast of humour and stunning visual effects in a non-stop, action-packed event for the whole family to enjoy. Whether you come from north or south, by road or by rail, or by air to the recently improved airfield, you enjoy a feast of coastal scenery which helps you to relax, ready for holiday making. Synonyms treat, delight, joy, pleasure, gratification 2An annual religious celebration. as modifier a feast day Synonyms fete, gala day, fair, festival, carnival, pageant, jubilee, jamboree, party, garden party, celebration 2.1 A day dedicated to a particular saint. the feast of St John Example sentencesExamples It was therefore fitting that on the feast of the Assumption, the Church, dedicated to Our Lady, was packed to overflowing. Popular religious and national festivals and major feasts of the Christian year are also important and reveal the presence of popular religion in Greece. The day of the assassination bid was also the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. For each Sunday, principal feasts, and some holy days, Pryce chose a short poem or prose selection that shares a theme with readings assigned to that day. The day of the coronation was appointed for the day January 29, during the feast of Candlemas. But we like to keep our religious feasts neatly separated. Even gloomy January is a good time to visit the region - at the end of the month, every village celebrates the feast of Saint Vincent, the patron saint of winegrowers. Do not Christmas and Easter, and almost all the Christian feasts, have a non-Christian origin? The most distinctive buildings, events, customs, and ideas are Catholic, from the many community churches and chapels, to the saints' days' feasts, to the week-long wakes in the homes of the dead. I know that the Mayor of Pisa, if he had any say in it at all, would like the tower to be reopened in June next year to coincide with the feast of their patron saint. The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order. Each province has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint, so that there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in the country. One is the feast of St. Leonard, the patron saint of livestock, who is honored each November with festive horse-and-cart parades. In Russian tradition, name days - feasts of major saints - are more important than birthdays. On February 14th is celebrated the feast of two saints named Valentine. On the island itself, due to the dominance of Roman Catholicism, the feast of saints and other Church holy days are observed. The popular Christian life in its annual liturgical cycle was a life punctuated by feasts, vigils, fasts, and celebrations. Villages celebrate their patron saints' feasts at various times during the year. We recommended for example to incorporate religious feasts let's say as national holidays and we made some proposal for the development of a better knowledge of religious thought. In a more vigorous vein he wrote some church music, including a Mass in the old style and the famous music for Vespers on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Synonyms festival, religious festival, feast day, saint's day, holy day, holiday, fete, festivity, celebration 2.2British An annual village festival. the feast was the highlight of the village year Example sentencesExamples Festivals were holidays and feasts and the Church even said there should be no fasting on such days. The growing community spirit is also set to lead to the resurrection next June of the annual village feast, which was last held in the 1930s. Her case studies only work if a crucial element, ‘custom,’ is defined as habitual practice or used to refer to plebeian feasts and festivals. At Kelfield, near Selby, locals got a good soaking in a medieval ducking stool - a star attraction at the annual village feast held on Saturday. There was a procession through the village, and a feast given for all the folk as a gift of the hand of Godwulf. verb fiːstfist [no object] 1Eat and drink sumptuously. the men would congregate and feast after hunting Example sentencesExamples I have bats upstairs who will feast tonight, and that's good. In the city they spend their days feasting, gaming, love-making and partaking of beautiful music. Achilles slaughters sheep and they feast and drink. There, musicians played and people danced and sang and drank and feasted. They talked, feasted for hours on rich Italian food, and drank heavily - all for free. Jordan quickly consumed himself in playing with the toy as he feasted happily upon the sugars provided. The assistant peered through the window and saw a group of people feasting, drinking, and reveling. They shared, according to Tacitus, a war orientated Teutonic lifestyle with a veneration for the portentous powers of sage women and a predilection for feasting and drinking to excess. They and the rest are feasting at his table. He was feasted for a year and then cast out of the city. Synonyms gorge on, dine on, eat one's fill of, indulge in, overindulge in eat, devour, consume, partake of banquet informal binge on, binge-eat, stuff one's face with, stuff oneself with, stuff down, shovel down, wolf down, pig oneself on, pig out on, make a pig of oneself on, cram in, tuck into, put away, pack away, make short work of, get outside of, get one's laughing gear round British informal gollop, shift North American informal snarf rare gourmandize 1.1feast on Eat large quantities of. we sat feasting on barbecued chicken and beer Example sentencesExamples The children feasted on hot dogs, barbecued by their childminders' husbands. On the canopy above, there are monkeys racing across the branches, and a troupe of squirrel monkeys, also feasting on ants. There, in the clearing, a wolf was feasting on a rabbit it had brought down. Amanda feasts on some vegetables, a tossed salad here and there, some fruit and pieces of chicken to make up her protein intake. He regularly feasts on giant meals of low-fat, high-fiber foods like cabbage, which stay in the stomach longer before breaking down. He walked straight past his expectant friend, dipped his good hand into one of his pockets and sat down, feasting on a large slab of cheese. When he was finished, he sat beside Michael and they shared out the provisions and feasted on chicken and wine. But for those still struggling to get kids chomping on carrots and feasting on fruit, there are a number of strategies to coax them into a healthier and more varied food regime. Three teenage schoolgirls were feasting on deep-fried chicken and chips and looked on, admiring the grace and agility of the couples. But, whereas the vast majority of youngsters tucked into chips and feasted on cake, fresh fruit and yoghurts were not as popular. In the summer they have parties on each allotment in turn, feasting on barbecues and getting sloshed on homemade wines. Without supervision, the goat will gobble the cabbage whereas the wolf will not hesitate to feast on the goat. I'm lucky, for I've got an invite to a bash in the Drill Hall where I spend the night dancing, drinking and feasting on mutton soup, pies and sandwiches. Our last night was spent feasting on stuffed peppers prepared by a Turkish chef who had trained in Germany. Synonyms eat, eat up, devour, ingest, swallow, gobble, gobble up, wolf down, gorge oneself on, feast on 1.2with object Give (someone) a plentiful and delicious meal. they feasted the deputation Example sentencesExamples Women especially would just love to impress their spouse by feasting them with the tasty dishes. The night before Greatgrandfather left, the village feasted him and sang music and poured jugs of beer over his head. For them, festivals are full of hassles, not to mention, the deluge of friends and relatives, who have to be feasted with the appropriate traditional dishes in the appropriate quantities. It was at these capitals where the chief would feast his people after collecting very beautiful and attractive sand, which he spread around the palace. In ancient times, before a battle, a general would feast his soldiers with alcohol and meat. Synonyms hold a banquet for, throw a feast for, wine and dine, ply with food and drink, give someone a meal, feed, cater for entertain lavishly, regale, treat, fete, throw a party for, play host to Phrases ghost (or skeleton) at the feast A person or thing that brings gloom to an otherwise pleasant occasion. Example sentencesExamples The party has become used to such phantom presences: for the past four years, its former idol appeared like the proverbial ghost at the feast to deliver his speech, take the plaudits, yet shun the centre stage. But his eyes were drawn nevertheless to the filthy bundle of rags, the skeleton at the feast. It is also the ghost at the feast of much polite society in Northern Ireland. feast one's eyes on Gaze at with pleasure. Example sentencesExamples We found ourselves running round the museum as closing time approached, trying to feast our eyes on as many of the archaeological treasurers as possible, devouring every ancient tale and fable. There is a tea room for drinks and snacks and you can even feast your eyes on some of the displays set out there too. There was almost a riot outside the emperor's throne in the Forbidden City: none of the elderly Chinese tourists wanted to miss the chance of feasting their eyes on that lavish golden sight. There was so much to feast the eyes, and stomach, on. Marie helped me up, and we feasted our eyes on how big it was. This event is being shared by over 40 countries and here in Sligo the line up is one to feast your eyes on. So you enter the exhibition through a scrap metal maze and exit via a talking house - and in between, you can feast your eyes on all the fantastic art that can be made out of metal, paper and plastic. We sat in the second half of the restaurant munching on warm bread and butter while we feasted our eyes on the menu. Those gathered for the event feasted their eyes on the works of art produced by these children displayed at the pizzeria. As we travelled through the country on good highways to the Baltic Sea we feasted our eyes on rich farmland and well kept farm homes. Synonyms observe, view, look at, eye, gaze at, stare at, gape at, peer at feast or famine Either too much of something or too little. your cash flow has been feast or famine recently Example sentencesExamples It's been feast or famine at the company. It's feast or famine at golf clubs and we're feasting at the moment. The cycle of feast or famine in production may not be as extreme as it once was but it still exists and there can be significant dry spells when a large-scale film facility would be filled with the sounds of silence. However, this still is a team driven by power, which means it often will be feast or famine. In many cases, the power game can become feast or famine. It's either feast or famine for the fragile Canadian feature-film industry. After having come off another slow period I decided that a small part-time job might help to temper the feast or famine cycle. ‘Regarding bird-watching, it's known to be feast or famine,’ he said. It's either feast or famine with Terrence Long. Derivatives feaster noun ˈfiːstəˈfistər The animals provide a high level of nutrition for the feasters, and the act of eating them is a sharing of flesh and blood. Example sentencesExamples It can be seen in the way in which animals for slaughter may be placed in order around the altar, or, alternatively, the prospective feasters may arrange themselves around a single animal. Origin Middle English: from Old French feste (noun), fester (verb), from Latin festa, neuter plural of festus 'joyous'. Compare with fete and fiesta. People have been celebrating special occasions with a feast since the Middle Ages, and appropriately the word goes back to Latin festus meaning ‘joyous’. Festival (Middle English) derives from the closely related Latin word festivus. A festoon (mid 17th century) comes from the same root, being at first a festival ornament. In the Christian Church the date of some festivals like Easter, known as movable feasts, varies from year to year. A skeleton at the feast is someone or something who casts gloom on what should be a happy occasion. This goes back to a story told in the 5th century bc by the Greek historian Herodotus. In ancient Egypt a painted carving of a body in a coffin was carried round the room at parties, and shown to guests with the warning that this was how they would be one day. Rhymes arriviste, artiste, batiste, beast, dirigiste, east, least, Mideast, modiste, northeast, piste, priest, southeast, uncreased, unreleased, yeast noun.1 phr. Definition of feast in US English: feast nounfēstfist 1A large meal, typically one in celebration of something. a wedding feast Example sentencesExamples On the same night that the game's elite were tucking into a feast at the champions dinner, here was Daly selling merchandise over the counter of his ramshackle trailer. Collins was reported to have chosen the head chef at the hotel, John Williams, to prepare the wedding feast. At wedding celebrations and religious feasts, coffee is drunk. It was a must at wedding feasts, despite the various dals, since, unlike the oily and rich dishes, it soothed the stomach. The guests had gathered to enjoy a rich meal, celebrating the first day of the wedding feast. Medieval banquets, Viking feasts, dinner parties, wedding ceremonies, conferences and exhibitions: you name it, this venue can do it. Great battles were fought and important conferences were planned, pacts signed, and feasts and religious ceremonies celebrated in its shade. Again there is a religious ceremony and a feast. Gawain called the meal a feast, but his hosts brushed off the compliment, saying the next meal would be better. He also wishes to extend to you an invitation to dine with him at a feast of dancing and delights. There was even a nice crop of berries and some fruit trees nearby and they had quite the feast for their meal. Traditional elements of the festival, including the gourmet dinner, restaurant meal deals and roving feasts, will remain. The wedding feast is the highpoint of any marriage function. Most feasts and celebrations have religious aspects. Speaking of food, the daily supper feasts were a copious spread of enormous proportion. The party sat around the table, eating the celebration feast. On weekends, they prepare earth ovens and bake food for the evening meal and a Sunday feast. The peppers' smoky-sweet flavor makes a satisfying feast out of any meal. The profane-sounding name simply mirrors the character of the adjacent area used for various purposes, among other things joyful cult celebrations attended by ritual dances and feasts. We collect donations and the leftovers of wedding feasts and feed the poor. Synonyms banquet, celebration meal, lavish dinner, sumptuous repast, large meal, formal meal, formal dinner 1.1 A plentiful supply of something enjoyable, especially for the mind or senses. the concert season offers a feast of classical music Example sentencesExamples Twelve students from years nine and ten cooked up a feast of Asian treats for members of staff, with retiring head teacher John Roberts among those tucking in. The general public and international visitors were treated to a feast of squash that has left them hungry for more. Tooting is preparing itself for a feast of Eastern delight to celebrate the culture of the Asian subcontinent. And this season's contest, to be held on March 29 at Percy Road, should be no different with a feast of rugby set to be on offer. According to the philosophy, each meal should be a feast for all of your senses. The room is a feast of gilt and opulent yellow-patterned fabrics, and it has a floor of aged, biscuit-brown polished wood rather than the almost inescapable blond parquet. Days like this one are memorable when a large group is treated to such a feast of fine golf. There's a feast of films vying for moviegoers' attention this season. While the game didn't offer a feast of goals for fans back home to enjoy during their World Cup breakfast, it was a case of the result counting for far more than the performance. People who actually recognise good music when they see it realise that there is a lot more to this band than may first meet the eye, and that to listen to them is to enjoy a feast of musical delights. Only a religious feast can ultimately satisfy human need. The Party was then treated to a feast of food, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Furthermore, a stroll around the campus offers a visual feast you don't have to be a fine artist to appreciate. For your pleasure is a feast of the finest entertainers in the land! In Italy, spring offers a feast of events for the art lover. Audiences will be treated to a feast of humour and stunning visual effects in a non-stop, action-packed event for the whole family to enjoy. The week will then offer a feast of music and poetry. Whether you come from north or south, by road or by rail, or by air to the recently improved airfield, you enjoy a feast of coastal scenery which helps you to relax, ready for holiday making. They are men and women in blue, numbering 15, and all set to treat you to a feast of a comic opera. And for our listeners this morning, we have a delectation of delights, a feast of fantasies. Synonyms treat, delight, joy, pleasure, gratification 1.2 An annual religious celebration. Synonyms fete, gala day, fair, festival, carnival, pageant, jubilee, jamboree, party, garden party, celebration 1.3 A day dedicated to a particular saint. the feast of St. Joseph Example sentencesExamples Do not Christmas and Easter, and almost all the Christian feasts, have a non-Christian origin? In a more vigorous vein he wrote some church music, including a Mass in the old style and the famous music for Vespers on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Villages celebrate their patron saints' feasts at various times during the year. We recommended for example to incorporate religious feasts let's say as national holidays and we made some proposal for the development of a better knowledge of religious thought. On February 14th is celebrated the feast of two saints named Valentine. I know that the Mayor of Pisa, if he had any say in it at all, would like the tower to be reopened in June next year to coincide with the feast of their patron saint. Even gloomy January is a good time to visit the region - at the end of the month, every village celebrates the feast of Saint Vincent, the patron saint of winegrowers. The day of the coronation was appointed for the day January 29, during the feast of Candlemas. One is the feast of St. Leonard, the patron saint of livestock, who is honored each November with festive horse-and-cart parades. The biggest holiday among Basques is the feast of their patron saint, Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order. The popular Christian life in its annual liturgical cycle was a life punctuated by feasts, vigils, fasts, and celebrations. It was therefore fitting that on the feast of the Assumption, the Church, dedicated to Our Lady, was packed to overflowing. Each province has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint, so that there is always a fiesta going on somewhere in the country. On the island itself, due to the dominance of Roman Catholicism, the feast of saints and other Church holy days are observed. The most distinctive buildings, events, customs, and ideas are Catholic, from the many community churches and chapels, to the saints' days' feasts, to the week-long wakes in the homes of the dead. But we like to keep our religious feasts neatly separated. The day of the assassination bid was also the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. In Russian tradition, name days - feasts of major saints - are more important than birthdays. Popular religious and national festivals and major feasts of the Christian year are also important and reveal the presence of popular religion in Greece. For each Sunday, principal feasts, and some holy days, Pryce chose a short poem or prose selection that shares a theme with readings assigned to that day. Synonyms festival, religious festival, feast day, saint's day, holy day, holiday, fete, festivity, celebration verbfēstfist [no object] 1Eat and drink sumptuously. the men would congregate and feast after hunting Example sentencesExamples Achilles slaughters sheep and they feast and drink. The assistant peered through the window and saw a group of people feasting, drinking, and reveling. They talked, feasted for hours on rich Italian food, and drank heavily - all for free. They shared, according to Tacitus, a war orientated Teutonic lifestyle with a veneration for the portentous powers of sage women and a predilection for feasting and drinking to excess. They and the rest are feasting at his table. There, musicians played and people danced and sang and drank and feasted. Jordan quickly consumed himself in playing with the toy as he feasted happily upon the sugars provided. I have bats upstairs who will feast tonight, and that's good. He was feasted for a year and then cast out of the city. In the city they spend their days feasting, gaming, love-making and partaking of beautiful music. Synonyms gorge on, dine on, eat one's fill of, indulge in, overindulge in 1.1feast on Eat large quantities of. we sat feasting on barbecued chicken and beer Example sentencesExamples I'm lucky, for I've got an invite to a bash in the Drill Hall where I spend the night dancing, drinking and feasting on mutton soup, pies and sandwiches. But for those still struggling to get kids chomping on carrots and feasting on fruit, there are a number of strategies to coax them into a healthier and more varied food regime. He walked straight past his expectant friend, dipped his good hand into one of his pockets and sat down, feasting on a large slab of cheese. When he was finished, he sat beside Michael and they shared out the provisions and feasted on chicken and wine. There, in the clearing, a wolf was feasting on a rabbit it had brought down. Three teenage schoolgirls were feasting on deep-fried chicken and chips and looked on, admiring the grace and agility of the couples. Amanda feasts on some vegetables, a tossed salad here and there, some fruit and pieces of chicken to make up her protein intake. Our last night was spent feasting on stuffed peppers prepared by a Turkish chef who had trained in Germany. The children feasted on hot dogs, barbecued by their childminders' husbands. But, whereas the vast majority of youngsters tucked into chips and feasted on cake, fresh fruit and yoghurts were not as popular. On the canopy above, there are monkeys racing across the branches, and a troupe of squirrel monkeys, also feasting on ants. Without supervision, the goat will gobble the cabbage whereas the wolf will not hesitate to feast on the goat. He regularly feasts on giant meals of low-fat, high-fiber foods like cabbage, which stay in the stomach longer before breaking down. In the summer they have parties on each allotment in turn, feasting on barbecues and getting sloshed on homemade wines. Synonyms eat, eat up, devour, ingest, swallow, gobble, gobble up, wolf down, gorge oneself on, feast on 1.2with object Give (someone) a plentiful and delicious meal. he was feasted and invited to all the parties Example sentencesExamples Women especially would just love to impress their spouse by feasting them with the tasty dishes. It was at these capitals where the chief would feast his people after collecting very beautiful and attractive sand, which he spread around the palace. In ancient times, before a battle, a general would feast his soldiers with alcohol and meat. The night before Greatgrandfather left, the village feasted him and sang music and poured jugs of beer over his head. For them, festivals are full of hassles, not to mention, the deluge of friends and relatives, who have to be feasted with the appropriate traditional dishes in the appropriate quantities. Synonyms hold a banquet for, throw a feast for, wine and dine, ply with food and drink, give someone a meal, feed, cater for Phrases feast one's eyes on Gaze at with pleasure. Example sentencesExamples Those gathered for the event feasted their eyes on the works of art produced by these children displayed at the pizzeria. So you enter the exhibition through a scrap metal maze and exit via a talking house - and in between, you can feast your eyes on all the fantastic art that can be made out of metal, paper and plastic. This event is being shared by over 40 countries and here in Sligo the line up is one to feast your eyes on. There was so much to feast the eyes, and stomach, on. There was almost a riot outside the emperor's throne in the Forbidden City: none of the elderly Chinese tourists wanted to miss the chance of feasting their eyes on that lavish golden sight. Marie helped me up, and we feasted our eyes on how big it was. We sat in the second half of the restaurant munching on warm bread and butter while we feasted our eyes on the menu. There is a tea room for drinks and snacks and you can even feast your eyes on some of the displays set out there too. As we travelled through the country on good highways to the Baltic Sea we feasted our eyes on rich farmland and well kept farm homes. We found ourselves running round the museum as closing time approached, trying to feast our eyes on as many of the archaeological treasurers as possible, devouring every ancient tale and fable. Synonyms observe, view, look at, eye, gaze at, stare at, gape at, peer at feast or famine Either too much of something or too little. Example sentencesExamples In many cases, the power game can become feast or famine. However, this still is a team driven by power, which means it often will be feast or famine. ‘Regarding bird-watching, it's known to be feast or famine,’ he said. It's either feast or famine with Terrence Long. It's feast or famine at golf clubs and we're feasting at the moment. It's either feast or famine for the fragile Canadian feature-film industry. It's been feast or famine at the company. After having come off another slow period I decided that a small part-time job might help to temper the feast or famine cycle. The cycle of feast or famine in production may not be as extreme as it once was but it still exists and there can be significant dry spells when a large-scale film facility would be filled with the sounds of silence. skeleton at the feast A person or thing that brings gloom or sadness to an otherwise pleasant or celebratory occasion. Example sentencesExamples It is also the ghost at the feast of much polite society in Northern Ireland. The party has become used to such phantom presences: for the past four years, its former idol appeared like the proverbial ghost at the feast to deliver his speech, take the plaudits, yet shun the centre stage. But his eyes were drawn nevertheless to the filthy bundle of rags, the skeleton at the feast. Origin Middle English: from Old French feste (noun), fester (verb), from Latin festa, neuter plural of festus ‘joyous’. Compare with fête and fiesta. noun.1 phr.
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