feast /fēst/

1. A rich and abundant meal
2. A regularly occurring religious celebration commemorating a person or event, honouring a deity, etc
3. A pleasurable abundance
4. (something that supplies) rich gratification of the senses (eg a feast for the eyes) or stimulation for the mind

1. To hold a feast
2. To eat abundantly and well (with on)
3. To receive intense delight

1. To provide a feast for
2. To delight, gratify (one's senses; with on)

feastˈer noun

feastˈful adjective (archaic)

Festive, joyful, luxurious

feastˈing noun

feastˈ-day noun

A day on which a religious festival occurs

feastˈ-rite noun

A rite or custom observed at religious feasts

feastˈ-won adjective (Shakespeare)

Won or bribed by feasting

Feast of Dedication

Another name for Hanukkah

Feast of Fools and Feast of Asses

Medieval festivals held between Christmas and Epiphany, in which a mock bishop was enthroned in church, a burlesque mass was said, and an ass driven round in triumph

Feast of Lots

The Jewish festival of Purim

Feast of Tabernacles same as Sukkoth

Feast of Weeks same as Shabuoth

movable feast

1. A religious festival of variable date, such as Easter
2. Anything whose date, form, etc is not fixed by custom

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