Feast vs Jeast - What's the difference?
feast | jeast |
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
Something delightful
A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
* Bible, Exodus xiii. 6
* Bible, Luke ii. 41
To partake in a , or large meal.
To dwell upon (something) with delight.
* Shakespeare
To hold a in honor of (someone).
To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
* Bishop Joseph Hall
(archaic) jest
*{{quote-book, year=1927, author=William Allan Nielson, title=The Facts About Shakespeare, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Plume adds, "Sir John Mennes saw once his old father in his shop--a merry cheeked old man that said, 'Will was a good honest fellow, but he darest have crackt a jeast with him at any time.'" }}
*{{quote-book, year=1885, author=T. H., title=The History of Sir Richard Whittington, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And after, at a feast, Which he the king did make, He burnt the bonds all in jeast , And would no money take. }}
As nouns the difference between feast and jeast
is that feast is a very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature while jeast is jest.As a verb feast
is to partake in a feast, or large meal.feast
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feest, feste, fest, from (etyl) feste, from (etyl) festa, plural of .Noun
(en noun)- We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
- It was a feast for the eyes.
- The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
- Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Synonyms
* banquetDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) feesten, festen, from (etyl) fester, from , from the noun. See above.Verb
(en verb)- I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
- With my love's picture then my eye doth feast .
- We feasted them after the victory.
- Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.
Derived terms
* feaster * feast one’s eyesAnagrams
* * *jeast
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