festival
Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
Adjective 1 meaning
Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
Noun 4 meanings
A feast or feast day.
An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.
“The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.”
In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
Fried cornbread.
Etymology
From Middle English festival (adjective), from Old French festival (“festive”), from Late Latin fēstīvālis, from Latin fēstīvus (“festive”). By surface analysis, festive + -al. Displaced native Old English frēols.
FESTIVAL at a glance
FESTIVAL has 8 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (F 4 + E 1 + S 1 + T 1 + I 1 + V 4 + A 1 + L 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,892 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with festival
All rhymes- APPROVAL15
- ARRIVAL10
- SURVIVAL14
- REMOVAL12
- NAVAL8
- RIVAL8
- MEDIEVAL14
- OVAL7
- REVIVAL13
- CARNIVAL13
- INTERVAL11
- RETRIEVAL12
One letter away
- AESTIVAL11
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