Feast
Feast (fēst) , noun
[Old English feste festival, holiday, feast, Old French feste festival, French fête, from Latin festum, pl. festa, from festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Compare Fair, n., Festal, Fête.]
1.
A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
An Ecclesiastical feast is called a immovable feast when it always occurs on the same day of the year; otherwise it is called a movable feast. Easter is a notable movable feast.
2.
A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords.
3.
That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.
The feast of reason, and the flow of soul.
Collocations (1)
Feast day , a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemorative festival.
Feast , intransitive verb
[Old English festen, compare Old French fester to rest from work, French fêter to celebrate a holiday. See Feast, n.]
1.
To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
And his sons went and feasted in their houses.
2.
To be highly gratified or delighted.
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.
Feast , transitive verb
1.
To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. — Hayward
2.
To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.
Feast your ears with the music a while.