Festival vs Afterfest - What's the difference?
festival | afterfest |
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.
Occurring subsequent to a festival
* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=September 3, author=David Whiteis, title=Dee Alexander, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Jazz Festival week is a busy one for Alexander: her gigs include a Friday afterfest set at Rosa's with her own band, a Sunday afterfest set at HotHouse with Thompson's Africa Brass, and a Tuesday duet at the Cultural Center with pianist Jeremy Khan. }}
As adjectives the difference between festival and afterfest
is that festival is pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively. while afterfest is occurring subsequent to a festival.As a noun festival
is an event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.festival
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(wikipedia festival)Adjective
(en adjective)- the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].
Noun
(en noun)afterfest
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