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🍽️ A big meal 🍽️ To eat a lot 🤩 To enjoy deeply 😍 A great delight 🎉 To give a banquet
to feast

to feast

27 3.6
To enjoy something very much with your senses, like a beautiful view
  • verb
  • /fiːst/
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  • So guys, feast your eyes on the best bagel in New York City.

With Olivia, he could feast on the light in her eyes.

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Examples

Synonyms

to relish
vsto feast
70 4.4

To enjoy something very much

prefers abundant sensory or mental pleasure rather than just intensity
to indulge
vsto feast
68 4.3

To allow yourself to enjoy something pleasant, often more than needed

focuses on receiving rich pleasure rather than permission or excess
to delight
vsto feast
48 1.0

To enjoy something very much

adds emphasis on overflowing sensory or mental gratification
to savor
vsto feast
  • US
47 4.1

To enjoy something slowly and fully while noticing every part

leans more toward abundant immediate pleasure than slow appreciation
to revel
vsto feast
17 4.9

To celebrate loudly with dancing and drinking

is inward and sensory pleasure rather than loud social celebration
to eat it up with a spoon
vsto feast
  • Informal
1 8.2

Enjoy something a lot, like a show or tasty food

covers rich pleasure for any sense or mind, not only food

Antonyms

to disappoint
492 1.0

Fail to do what someone hoped for

to dissatisfy
1 4.3

To make someone unhappy because something does not meet their needs or wants

Idioms

feast or famine
  • Informal
1 5.3

A time when you have a lot of something and then very little

to feast one's eyes
  • Informal
6.0

To look at something with great pleasure

skeleton at the feast
  • Literature
9.9

A person or problem that spoils a happy event

Phrasal Verbs

to turn into a feast
  • Informal
1 6.2

Make simple food into a large special meal with many dishes

Compounds

feast day
6 3.7

A day for special celebration and big meals, often for religious or cultural reasons

moveable feast
  • UK
1 7.8

A religious holiday that changes date each year

Feast of Tabernacles
1 8.3

A week-long Jewish festival called Sukkot in autumn when people live briefly in small shelters to remember the desert journey

love feast
1 7.2

A meal people often share in a church to bring them closer

Viking feast
1 8.2

A large meal with roasted meat, bread, and mead shared by many people

Feast of Booths
8.0

A weeklong Jewish festival in autumn when people live in small huts to remember time in the desert

Feast of Dedication
6.9

An eight-day Jewish festival also called Hanukkah that remembers the Temple in Jerusalem being made holy again

Feast of Dormition
9.9

A celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church remembering the Virgin Mary being taken into heaven on August 15

Feast of Lights
4.8

An eight-day Jewish holiday called Hanukkah when families light candles each night to remember a miracle

Feast of Sacrifice
7.5

A Muslim festival when families sacrifice an animal and share meat with the poor

Feast of the Circumcision
9.9

A feast day in some Christian churches on January 1 that remembers Jesus' circumcision

Feast of the Dedication
7.8

An eight-day Jewish festival in winter called Hanukkah that celebrates the Temple in Jerusalem being made holy again

Feast of the Unleavened Bread
7.4

An eight-day Jewish festival in spring that remembers the Israelites leaving Egypt

Feast of Weeks
7.6

A Jewish holiday called Shavuot that remembers Moses receiving the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai

movable feast
7.6

A religious holiday whose date changes each year

How Pleasurable

to feast
27 3.6
to revel
29 6.3
to savor
  • US
47 4.1
to enjoy
∞ 1.0
to like
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

feast infinitive
feasted past
feasted past participle
feasting present participle
feasts third person singular

Etymology

The verb feast, meaning to delight your senses or mind, comes from the root fest 'festival', so it means to give yourself a kind of celebration. That's why you can 'feast' your eyes or ears on something beautiful.