Festival is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FESTIVAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a time of celebration
• a day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons
• an organized series of concerts, plays, or films, typically one held annually in the same place
• organized series of special events or performances
• a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
• an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)
ADJECTIVE:
• Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a day or time of celebration

Words related to FESTIVAL

festa8 festivals15 gala5

Words that contain FESTIVAL

festivals15 festivalgoer19 festivalgoers20

How to use FESTIVAL in a sentence

• Although still in a very alarming state, she let some sweet and loving words concerning the Blessed Virgin escape her lips during the night and day of the festival.
• She will have nothing to do with the festival of the Holy Countenance.
• Jacques to perform her devotions on the eve of so great a festival.
• So far from this proving the case, the whole of the negro population kept it as a most sacred festival, and in this light I am convinced it will ever be viewed.
• My imagination was a little excited by the whole scene at our last harvest festival.
• It is the very essence of a festival that it breaks upon one brilliantly and abruptly, that at one moment the great day is not and the next moment the great day is.
• The immediate material gain was not the winning of the stakes, but a simple crown or garland of laurel, olive, pine, or parsley, according to the festival at which they fought.
• The festival of an ass celebrated at Lyons, in derision of religious worship.
• However, Lord Elphinstone learned that a Bombay rising had been arranged for a certain religious festival.
• A rumour spread rapidly through the city, that in honour of the festival the Jews were to be massacred.
• But his gay rivals in the affections of the duke still held their sway, and the recurrence of the great festival failed to awaken his conscience even for the moment.
• The festival was celebrated in honor of the Nemean Zeus, in the valley of Nemea between Philus and Cleonae.
• The Bee Festival was held in a beautiful park a mile distant from the city.
• The festival of the Boy-Bishop, however, was conducted with a decency hardly to be expected in view of its apparent associations.
• At the time the festival was abolished, opinion was divided even among the leaders of reform.
• In its palmy days the festival of the Boy-Bishop was favoured not only by the people, but by the monarch.
• They appear with them on a festival occasion or when they visit some trading post.
• He attended the Russian festival in Paris in the spring of 1907.
• The little body was still dressed in the gay clothes of the festival, and the cocked hat and gilt-headed mace lay beside it.
• As the night before had been full of horrors and dread events, the next morning and day were like a festival, the preparation to a great and solemn feast.
• JEREMIAH MASON KOSSUTH From a Speech delivered in Boston, on the 7th of November, 1849, at a Festival of the Natives of New Hampshire established in Massachusetts.
• On the 8th of June, Ali returned to Bubaker to celebrate a festival, and permitted Mr.
• The ceremony is said to be merely a continuation of an old heathen festival which was held at the beginning of spring in honour of the fire-god Mihr.
• At a grand festival, when every thing is richly illuminated, the appearance of this chapel must be gorgeous in the extreme.
• Then I was at the Harvest-Home Festival in the church, and downstairs in the basement there were long tables set.
• Content and pleasant expectation sat on every countenance, as when people have come to a festival, and await the summons to the banquet.
• One of these chiefs, named Audusta, invited them to the grand religious festival of his tribe.
• And to this day, at Seville, on the festival of the Holy Sacrament, the choir-children turn in a sort of slow waltz as they sing hymns before the high altar of the cathedral.
• Together they bathed and clad the child in the morning, this being their high festival, in which the nurses shared but in the performance of small duties.

Similar words containing FESTIV without suffix al

festive13 festivus14 festivals15 festively18 festivity18 festivous15 festiveness17 festivities17 festivalgoer19 festivalgoers20 festivenesses19

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