Definitions for feasts

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feasts feast

Spelling: [feest]

IPA: /fist/

Feasts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in feasts (aefsst).

Definitions for feasts

noun

1. any rich or abundant meal:
2. a sumptuous entertainment or meal for many guests:
3. something highly agreeable:
4. a periodical celebration or time of celebration, usually of a religious nature, commemorating an event, person, etc.:

Idioms

1. feast one's eyes, to gaze with great joy, admiration, or relish:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide or entertain with a feast.

verb (used without object)

1. to have or partake of a feast; eat sumptuously.
2. to dwell with gratification or delight, as on a picture or view.

Origin of feasts

1150-1200; Middle English feste Old French Latin fēsta, neuter plural (taken as feminine singular noun) of fēstus festal, festive, equivalent to fēs- (akin to fair

Examples for feasts

All is prepared—the table and the feast— With due appurtenance of clothes and cushions.

He is having a feast of Marennes and he asks me to join him.

The rest will to Dax when the prince starts, which will be before the feast of the Epiphany.

The mythic origin of the feast was the creation of the world by the god Marduk.

It was known as the feast of Akitu, and it was celebrated in April.

But in good time the Lybian pipe warns us that the feast is ready.

Then feast your ears on this 1969 Bill Cosby routine about drugging and seducing women.

If after I am free a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit.

Given the somewhat macabre origins of the feast, many of the celebrations were designed to placate the gods.

feast your eyes on the ‘top-grain leather,’ ‘original’ design, gilded pages.