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Festival vs Celebrations - What's the difference?

festival | celebrations |

As nouns the difference between festival and celebrations

is that festival is while celebrations is .

festival

English

(wikipedia festival)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
    • the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * festive * festivities

    celebrations

    English

    Noun

    (head)