different between festival vs commemoration

English

Etymology

From Old French festival, from Late Latin f?st?v?lis, from Latin f?st?vus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?st?v?l/

Adjective

festival (comparative more festival, superlative most festival)

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

Noun

festival (plural festivals)

1. (biblical) A feast or feast day.
   • Deuteronomy 16:16 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

     ¹⁶ All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.

2. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
3. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
4. (Caribbean, Jamaican) fried cornbread

Related terms

• festal
• festive
• festivity
• festivities

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /f?s.ti?val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /f?s.ti?bal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fes.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Czech

Etymology

From English festival

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?st?val]
• Hyphenation: fe?s?ti?val

Noun

festival m inan

1. festival (an event or community gathering)

Declension

Further reading

• festival in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• festival in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival, from Old French festival, from Late Latin f?st?v?lis, from Latin f?st?vus (“festive”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?s.ti?v?l/
• Hyphenation: fes?ti?val

Noun

festival n (plural festivals, diminutive festivalletje n)

1. A festival (festive event or gathering).

Derived terms

• dorpsfestival
• festivalganger
• festivalisering
• festivalpubliek
• filmfestival
• kunstfestival
• muziekfestival
• songfestival
• theaterfestival

French

Etymology

From English festival, from Old French festival.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s.ti.val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivals)

1. festival

Further reading

• “festival” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English festival.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?s.ti.val/, /fes.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (invariable)

1. festival
2. worker's festival

Synonyms

• mostra
• rassegna

Related terms

• festivaliere
• festivaliero

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivaler, definite plural festivalene)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin festivalis, via English festival

Noun

festival m (definite singular festivalen, indefinite plural festivalar, definite plural festivalane)

1. a festival

References

• “festival” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From French festival, ultimately from Latin f?st?v?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /f??.ti?val/

Noun

festival m (plural festivais)

1. festival

Romanian

Etymology

From French festival.

Noun

festival n (plural festivaluri)

1. festival

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

festìv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. festival

Declension

See also

• praznik

Spanish

Noun

festival m (plural festivales)

1. festival

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French festival.

Noun

festival (definite accusative festivali, plural festivaller)

1. festival

Synonyms

• ?enlik

English

Etymology

From commemorate +? -ion, from Old French commemoration (French commémoration), from Latin commemor?ti?nem, verb commemor?re.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

commemoration (countable and uncountable, plural commemorations)

1. The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration to honor the memory of some person or event.
2. That which serves the purpose of commemorating; a memorial.
3. (religion) The specification of individual saints in the prayers for the dead.
4. (Britain) The great festival of the Oxford academic year, usually taking place on the third Wednesday after Trinity Sunday.

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