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feasting

feasting

5 3.4
A large meal with lots of food, often at a party
  • noun
  • /ˈfiːstɪŋ/
translation icon : banquete
  • The villagers gathered for feasting, enjoying a variety of dishes and celebrating the harvest.
  • dancing and feasting
  • ritual feasting
  • feasting and celebration

And we travel far sometimes, between feastings.

Examples

  • Let the feasting commence.

    Deep (2017)

  • Singing and feasting went on, all coming together as the summer evening progressed.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Think of a lord, a prince, like you, for example, coming into the feasting hall.

    Fall of Camp Blood: A Friday the 13th Fan Film (2022)

  • With feasting and dancing and song Tonight in celebration

    The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

  • There was also a good deal of drinking, dancing, feasting and gaming.

  • It is celebrated with traditional music, and feasting, and of course, good company.

    Infinity Pool (2023)

  • Bakht was looking forward to the days of feasting and merriment.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Carnival is the last three days preceding the Lent, which, in Roman Catholic countries, is given up to feasting and merry-making.

    Gilda (1946)

  • When we arrive at Porto Silva, there will be a celebration and much feasting.

    Red Scorpion (1988)

  • Roman precursors of Christmas, Kalends and Saturnalia, were both events characterized by lavish gift-giving, spending, feasting, carousing, and overall extravagance.

    Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

meal
vsfeasting
∞ 1.0

A time when people eat, for example breakfast or dinner

is focused on celebratory elaborate abundant eating rather than ordinary regular meals
dining
vsfeasting
366 1.0

Eating a meal, often dinner, in a restaurant or with guests

is about abundant celebratory eating often with entertainment rather than formal meals
banquet
vsfeasting
  • Formal
114 3.9

A large formal meal for many people to celebrate a special event

is the action of celebratory abundant eating rather than the event name
banqueting
vsfeasting
1 6.4

A large formal meal where people eat together and enjoy music

is used for celebratory abundant eating rather than for ordinary formal meals

Antonyms

fasting
30 3.1

A period without food and drink for health or religious reasons

How Elaborate

feasting
5 3.4
dining
366 1.0
eating
244 1.0
to snack
27 1.0

Surface Forms

feasting singular
feastings plural

Morphology

feasting = feast (transparent) = feast + ing

Formed by adding the productive gerundive suffix '-ing' to 'feast', yielding the action or event 'the act of feasting'.

Etymology

The word feasting comes from feast, which is linked to the root fest- meaning 'festival' or 'holiday'. A helpful image is a festival table full of food, so feasting means eating a large, special meal as part of a celebration.