Definition for Festival:

• Pertaining to a feast; joyous; mirthful.

Synonyms for Festival:

• n.

  •
  • block party,
  • entertainment,
  • B and S,
  • blowout,
  • bachelorette party,
  • banquet,
  • baby shower,
  • all-nighter,
  • gala,
  • bash,
  • bachelor party,
  • afterparty.
  •
  • merriment,
  • laughter,
  • revelry,
  • gaiety,
  • revel,
  • jollity,
  • merrymaking.
  •
  • Corroboree.
  •act (noun)
  • festival.
  •anniversary (noun)
  • recurrence,
  • feast day,
  • jubilees,
  • jubilee,
  • Festivals.
  •carnival (noun)
  • ragbag,
  • masquerade,
  • feastings,
  • street fair,
  • jollifications,
  • ragbags,
  • jollification,
  • Carny,
  • side show,
  • grind show.
  •celebration (noun)
  • wingding,
  • glorification,
  • treat,
  • field day,
  • wingdings,
  • commemoration,
  • merriments,
  • solemnization,
  • jubilation,
  • competition,
  • anniversary,
  • memorialization.
  •circus (noun)
  • three-rings,
  • three ring,
  • threering,
  • kermises,
  • threerings,
  • three rings.
  •fair (noun)
  • dis-play,
  • dis play,
  • dis-plays,
  • dis plays.
  •feast (noun)
  • re-gale,
  • re gales,
  • potlatches,
  • clambakes,
  • big feeds,
  • re gale,
  • re-gales.
  •festivity (noun)
  • fun gameses,
  • fun games,
  • whoopees,
  • do's,
  • revelments,
  • fun and gameses,
  • revelings.
  •fiesta (noun)
  • saint's day.
  •holiday (noun)
  • long weekends,
  • few days offs,
  • re cesses,
  • day rest,
  • re-cess,
  • gone fishings.
  •revelry (noun)
  • whoop-de-dos,
  • whoop de do,
  • whooplas,
  • whoop de dos.

• v.

  •fete (verb)
  • festivaling,
  • rolled out red carpet,
  • held reception for,
  • makes much of,
  • festivaled,
  • rolling out the red carpet,
  • rolling out red carpet,
  • rolls out the red carpet,
  • holding reception for,
  • rolled out the red carpet,
  • rolls out red carpet,
  • made much of,
  • holds reception for,
  • wine dine.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • presidents' day,
  • arbor day,
  • film festival,
  • ANZAC Day,
  • may day,
  • wassail,
  • Woodstock,
  • national holiday,
  • Australia Day,
  • Veteran's Day,
  • public holiday,
  • bank holiday,
  • Canada Day,
  • new year's day,
  • the Fourth of July,
  • labor day,
  • pentecost,
  • Columbus Day.
  •
  • fun,
  • conviviality,
  • thanksgiving,
  • day,
  • independence day.
  •
  • season.

Paraphrases for Festival:

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    celebration, celebrations.
  • Noun, plural
    Festivities, celebrations.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    celebration.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    observances, pictures, Hamptons, kids.
  • Noun, plural
    sects, carriages, games, knots, periods, joints, guys.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    provides.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    Festivities, feast.
  • Noun, plural
    Holidays, Phalanges.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    feast, pageant, concert, phalanx, anniversary, commemoration.

Festival Sentence Examples:

• Three communities, East Joyfield, Demerley, and the South Chapel, united in holding a festival in the Joyfield Town Hall on Thanksgiving Day.

• V. The Five Day's Festival.

Homophones for Festival:

• fastball, fistful.

Hypernym for Festival:

• n.

  • act
    jazz festival, carnival, kwanzaa, dionysia, film festival, Oktoberfest, kwanza, saturnalia, bacchanalia, eisteddfod, sheepshearing.
  • time
    church festival, religious festival.

Hyponym for Festival:

• n.

  • act
    celebration, festivity.
  • time
    period of time, period, time period.