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Feast vs Feastly - What's the difference?

feast | feastly |

As a noun feast

is a very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

As a verb feast

is to partake in a , or large meal.

As an adjective feastly is

wont to or fond of festive occasions.

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

    * * *

    feastly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Wont to or fond of festive occasions.
  • * 2003 , Institute for Central European Studies (Universitatea "Babe?-Bolyai"), Colloquia: journal of Central European history :
    • Royal entrances not only provide for feast and, implicitly, collective feastly behaviour but they themselves are feasts equivalent with the ordinary feasts on the agenda of a particular place.
  • Of, relating to, or characteristic of a feast; festive.
  • * 1994 , University of British Columbia. Dept. of Creative Writing, Prism international :
    • So my old man, he says Lord thank you for this feastly grub that the relatives worked so hard for [...]