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FEAST DAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A day designated for feasting
Synonyms:
feast day; fete day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("feast day" is a kind of...):
holiday (a day on which work is suspended by law or custom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feast day"):
Jewish New Year; Rosh Hashana; Rosh Hashanah; Rosh Hashona; Rosh Hashonah ((Judaism) a solemn Jewish feast day celebrated on the 1st or 1st and 2nd of Tishri; noted for the blowing of the shofar)
movable feast; moveable feast (a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years)
Circumcision; Feast of the Circumcision; January 1 ((Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st)
Christmas; Christmas Day; Dec 25; Xmas (a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)
Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag)
Id al-Fitr (a Muslim day of feasting at the end of Ramadan)
Feast of Sacrifice; Id al-Adha (the 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity)
Holonyms ("feast day" is a part of...):
church festival; religious festival (a festival having religious significance)
