Banquet vs Festival - What's the difference?
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A large celebratory meal; a feast.
(archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
* Massinger
To participate in a banquet; to feast.
* Milton
(obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
* Cavendish
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
* Coleridge
Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
Banquet is a related term of festival.
As nouns the difference between banquet and festival
is that banquet is a large celebratory meal; a feast while festival is .As a verb banquet
is to participate in a banquet; to feast.banquet
English
Noun
(en noun)- We'll dine in the great room, but let the music / And banquet be prepared here.
Verb
- Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets , I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
- Where they did both sup and banquet .
- Just in time to banquet / The illustrious company assembled there.
festival
English
(wikipedia festival)Adjective
(en adjective)- the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].