fiesta
/fɪˈɛstə
/noun
1(In Spanish-speaking countries) a religious festival: the yearly fiesta of San Juan...
- Colombians participate enthusiastically in the many secular and religious fiestas around the country.
- The remaining cash is further divided among communities, purchasing public works, sports facilities, community fiestas and religious services.
- The principal form of entertainment in the Andes is the regular festivals or fiestas that exist to mark the agricultural or religious calendar.
1.1An event marked by festivities or celebration: [in names]: the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta...
- There will be celebrations, fiestas and carnivals-a-plenty at this concert, led by Trans-Global tourist guide Alisdair Malloy.
- Indeed a potential fundraising opportunity, which might at least have bought a planeload of anti-Aids drugs, has become an exhibition of high-tech media co-ordination and a celebrity fiesta.
- The first event of the fiesta: a Saturday morning flight, was cancelled due to strong winds.
Synonyms
festival, carnival, holiday, celebration, party
Origin
Spanish, from Latin festum, (plural) festa (see feast).
Rhymes
- the great Australian dream
- the Great Depression
- the Great Game
- the Great Mogul
- the (great) unwashed
- the green-eyed monster
- the Greensand
- the Grenadines
- the Grim Reaper
- the groves of Academe
- the Gulf
- the half of it
- the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
- the Hanse
- the hard way
- the heavens open
- the heavy mob
- the Herdsman
- the high ground
- the Highlands
- the Holy City
- the Holy Grail
- the Holy Sacrament
- the Holy Trinity
- the Horn