Feast vs Repast - What's the difference?
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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
(countable) A meal.
* Milton
* 1908 ,
* 2010 ,
(uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To supply food to; to feast.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To take food.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between feast and repast
is that feast is a very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature while repast is a meal.As verbs the difference between feast and repast
is that feast is to partake in a feast, or large meal while repast is to supply food to; to feast.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
* * *repast
English
Noun
- From dance to sweet repast they turn.
- When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast .
- "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast ."
- Go and get me some repast .
Verb
(en verb)- Repast them with my blood.
- He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.