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Feast

noun

A ceremonial dinner party for many people. Synonym: banquet.

Something experienced with great delight.

A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed. Synonyms: banquet, spread. "The Thanksgiving feast" , "They put out quite a spread"

An elaborate party (often outdoors). Synonyms: fete, fiesta.

verb

(past & past part. feasted; pres. part. feasting)

Partake in a feast or banquet. Synonyms: banquet, junket.

Provide a feast or banquet for. Synonyms: banquet, junket.

Gratify. Synonym: feed.

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"Feast" Quotes from Famous Books

... to this feast of brotherly love lay in the fact that he could not obtain the tete-a-tete he so earnestly desired with Bobby Boynton. She was always with him, to be sure, but so was everybody else, especially Mrs. Weston, who had been officially appointed to stand ...

— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice

... of our seniors grow quite pathetic over the abolition of those social, if unsalubrious, repasts. I wonder at such regrets no longer, if I cannot share them. There is surely an hilarious informality about these media-nochi that attaches to no antecedent feast; the freedom of a picnic, without its manifold inconveniences: as the witching hour draws nearer, the "brightest eyes that ever have shone" glitter yet more gloriously, till in their nearer and dearer ...

— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence

... he said to Ivanhoe, "at Coningsburgh, the castle of the deceased Athelstane, since there thy father Cedric holds the funeral feast for his noble relation. I would see your Saxon kindred together, Sir Wilfred, and become better acquainted with them than heretofore. Thou also wilt meet me; and it shall be my task to ...

— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... with laughter at sight of Lapoulle's face, who swallowed everything and was licking his chops in anticipation of the feast. That funny dog, Loubet, he was the man to cure one of the dumps if anybody could! And when the fire began to crackle in the sunlight, and the kettle commenced to hum and bubble, they ranged themselves reverently ...

— The Downfall • Emile Zola

... brother owes my father's cousin something yet on his daughter's marriage-feast,' said the woman crisply. 'Let him put their food to that account. The yogi will ...

— Kim • Rudyard Kipling

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