fiestanoun [ C ]
uk/fiˈes.tə/us/fiˈes.tə/a public celebration in Spain or Latin America, especially one on a religious holiday, with different types of entertainment and activities
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Celebrations, parties & special occasions
- a night on the town idiom
- a/the gathering of the clans idiom
- afterparty
- April Fool's Day
- bachelor party
- fayre
- feast
- fest
- festival
- festive
- fundraiser
- New Year's Eve
- night
- nightclubbing
- nightlife
- occasion
- party planner
- prom
- rage
- rave
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Examples from literature
- It looks as though it were bedecked for a fiesta.
- Nearly all led by the hand or carried in their arms a little boy or girl decked out as if for a fiesta.
- On Monday the religious of St. Francis held their fiesta in the same church.
- The religious fiestas, as I have said, may be classed among the amusements of the people.
- This year great eight-day fiestas, with masks and illuminations, have been celebrated with much solemnity in the cathedral church and in that of St. Francis.