feast
feast 英 [fi:st] 美 [fist]
v. 享受；款待 n. 筵席，宴会；节日
进行时:feasting 过去式:feasted 过去分词:feasted 第三人称单数:feasts 名词复数:feasts
- A feast is a huge, delicious meal that's served at a party or celebration. You might have a feast to celebrate the last day of school every year.
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- v. 享受；款待
- n. 筵席，宴会；节日
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1. a wedding feast
婚筵
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2. the feast of Christmas
圣诞佳节
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3. a feast day
一个宗教节日
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4. a feast of colours
五彩缤纷
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5. The evening was a real feast for music lovers.
这个晚会真是让音乐爱好者大饱耳福。
- feast (n.) c. 1200, "secular celebration with feasting and entertainment" (often held on a church holiday); c. 1300, "religious anniversary characterized by rejoicing" (rather than fasting), from Old French feste "religious festival, holy day; holiday; market, fair; noise, racket; jest, fun" (12c., Modern French fête), from Vulgar Latin *festa (fem. singular; also source of Italian festa, Spanish fiesta), from Latin festa "holidays, feasts, festal banquets," noun use of neuter plural of festus "festive, joyful, merry," related to feriae "holiday" and fanum "temple," from Proto-Italic *fasno- "temple," from PIE *dhis-no- "divine, holy; consecrated place," suffixed form of PIE root *dhes-, forming words for religious concepts.
- feast (v.) c. 1300, "partake of a feast," from Old French fester "to feast, make merry; observe (a holiday)" (Modern French fêter), from feste "religious festival" (see feast (n.)). Related: Feasted; feasting.
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