cultural festival
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- noun
- /ˈkʌltʃərəl ˈfɛstɪvəl/
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festival cultural
- Visitors from across the region come to experience the vibrant cultural festival featuring local crafts and delicious cuisines.
- an annual cultural festival
Examples
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Summer in New England is a plethora of cultural festivals.
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Also, I wanted to draw your attention to our annual cultural festival, Trialogos.
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The country's premier cultural festival has it all: music and dance.
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Grassroots cultural festivals are currently an important component of the island's informal economic sector.
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The four-day cultural festival celebrates Mexican food, art, music, and film and was co-produced by NOMAD and The Embassy of Mexico.
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In size, breadth of coverage, and variety of participation, there has been no cultural festival like FESTAC 77, and there has been none since then in Africa.
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The Kauai Japanese Cultural Society presents the 27th annual Matsuri Kauai, a Japanese cultural festival, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall in Lihue from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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Every year, our town hosts a cultural festival that showcases traditional music, dance, and food from different communities.
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The annual cultural festival celebrates the diverse heritage of our city with art exhibits and live performances.
Synonyms
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An event with many shows like music or theatre
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A public party with music, food, and events
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A public festival with parades, music, and dancing in the streets
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A lively outdoor party with music, dancing, and food
A public celebration with music, dancing, and special food
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'cultural festival' is a straightforward composition of 'cultural' (relating to a society's arts and customs) and 'festival' (an occasion marked by gatherings or celebrations), so its meaning as an event celebrating a community's traditions is directly derivable. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows basic adjective + noun semantics, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Cultural festival comes from old village gatherings where people shared music, food and dance that showed their culture. Because cultural means 'about community customs and art' and festival means a public party, the phrase now means an event to 'celebrate' those traditions.