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Feast vs Jeast - What's the difference?

feast | jeast |

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)
  • A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
  • We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
  • Something delightful
  • It was a feast for the eyes.
  • A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
  • * Bible, Exodus xiii. 6
  • The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
  • * Bible, Luke ii. 41
  • Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
    Synonyms
    * banquet
    Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) feesten, festen, from (etyl) fester, from , from the noun. See above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To partake in a , or large meal.
  • I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
  • To dwell upon (something) with delight.
  • * Shakespeare
  • With my love's picture then my eye doth feast .
  • To hold a in honor of (someone).
  • We feasted them after the victory.
  • To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
  • Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.
    Derived terms
    * feaster * feast one’s eyes

    Anagrams

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    jeast

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) jest
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author=William Allan Nielson, title=The Facts About Shakespeare, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , 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= citation
  • , passage=And after, at a feast, Which he the king did make, He burnt the bonds all in jeast , And would no money take. }}