Synonyms for festival
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Noun
1. Holiday
holiday, feast, carnival, celebration, fete, fête UK, entertainment, banquet
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A feast or feast day.
Related words
- Word family
- festal festive festivity
- Phrases
- winter festival snow festival pride festival
Forms
- Plural
- festivals → holidays, feasts, carnivals, celebrations…
Choose the right word
Harvest-home ordinarily denotes the festival of harvest, and when used to denote simply the season always gives a suggestion of festivity and rejoicing, such as harvest and harvest-time by themselves do not express.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- holiday A good many people have told me to take a holiday.
- celebration Parents will be invited to the school celebration.
- feast The marriage feast continued for three whole days.
- carnival "Yes, I am Brazilian. No, I don't like carnival."
- fest Why is open source such a sausage fest?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| festival | rising | |
| holiday | steady | |
| celebration | rising | |
| feast | rising | |
| carnival | rising | |
| fest | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- fest1, fete1
- 5 letters
- feast1
- 7 letters
- holiday3, banquet2
- 8 letters
- carnival3
- 11 letters
- celebration4
- 13 letters
- entertainment4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (holiday3 = 3 syllables).