'FEAST' definitions:

Definition of 'feast'

From: WordNet
noun
A ceremonial dinner party for many people [syn: banquet, feast]
noun
Something experienced with great delight; "a feast for the eyes"
noun
A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread" [syn: banquet, feast, spread]
noun
An elaborate party (often outdoors) [syn: fete, feast, fiesta]
verb
Partake in a feast or banquet [syn: feast, banquet, junket]
verb
Provide a feast or banquet for [syn: feast, banquet, junket]
verb
Gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" [syn: feed, feast]

Definition of 'Feast'

From: GCIDE
  • Feast \Feast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Feasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Feasting.] [OE. festen, cf. OF. fester to rest from work, F. f[^e]ter to celebrate a holiday. See Feast, n.]
  • 1. To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. [1913 Webster]
  • And his sons went and feasted in their houses. --Job. i. 4. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To be highly gratified or delighted. [1913 Webster]
  • With my love's picture then my eye doth feast. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Feast'

From: GCIDE
  • Feast \Feast\ (f[=e]st), n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. f[^e]te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. Fair, n., Festal, F[^e]te.]
  • 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. [1913 Webster]
  • The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. --Ex. xiii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. --Luke ii. 41. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: An Ecclesiastical feast is called a immovable feast when it always occurs on the same day of the year; otherwise it is called a movable feast. Easter is a notable movable feast. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. [1913 Webster]
  • Enough is as good as a feast. --Old Proverb. [1913 Webster]
  • Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. --Dan. v. 1. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. [1913 Webster]
  • The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • Feast day, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemorative festival.
  • Syn: Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal; festivity; festival.
  • Usage: Feast, Banquet, Festival, Carousal. A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abundance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained indulgence in frolic and drink. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Feast'

From: GCIDE
  • Feast \Feast\, v. t.
  • 1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul. [1913 Webster]
  • Feast your ears with the music a while. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'FEAST'

From: Easton
  • Feast as a mark of hospitality (Gen. 19:3; 2 Sam. 3:20; 2 Kings 6:23); on occasions of domestic joy (Luke 15:23; Gen. 21:8); on birthdays (Gen. 40:20; Job 1:4; Matt. 14:6); and on the occasion of a marriage (Judg. 14:10; Gen. 29:22).
  • Feasting was a part of the observances connected with the offering up of sacrifices (Deut. 12:6, 7; 1 Sam. 9:19; 16:3, 5), and with the annual festivals (Deut. 16:11). "It was one of the designs of the greater solemnities, which required the attendance of the people at the sacred tent, that the oneness of the nation might be maintained and cemented together, by statedly congregating in one place, and with one soul taking part in the same religious services. But that oneness was primarily and chiefly a religious and not merely a political one; the people were not merely to meet as among themselves, but with Jehovah, and to present themselves before him as one body; the meeting was in its own nature a binding of themselves in fellowship with Jehovah; so that it was not politics and commerce that had here to do, but the soul of the Mosaic dispensation, the foundation of the religious and political existence of Israel, the covenant with Jehovah. To keep the people's consciousness alive to this, to revive, strengthen, and perpetuate it, nothing could be so well adapated as these annual feasts." (See FESTIVALS.)

Synonyms of 'feast'

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Acronyms for 'FEAST'

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