Definition of "feast"

feast¹

/fiːst/

noun
plural feasts
1. A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
2. Something delightful
3. A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
  Quotations
  The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 13:6
  Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Luke 2:41

feast²

/fiːst/

verb
third-person singular simple present feasts, present participle feasting, simple past and past participle feasted
1. (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.
2. (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
  Quotations
  With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 47”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
3. (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
  Quotations
  He that shall see this day, and live old age,Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighborsAnd say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”
  1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]
4. (transitive, obsolete) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
  Quotations
  Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.
  1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum