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comparative more festival, superlative most festival
Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.) quotations examples
the temple of the Gods […] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
countable and uncountable, plural festivals
(biblical) A feast or feast day. quotations examples
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.
2009, “Deuteronomy 16:16”, in Holman Christian Standard Bible
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. examples
In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god. examples
(Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread. examples