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Festival vs Holi - What's the difference?

festival | holi |

As a noun festival

is .

As an adjective holi is

holy.

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

    holi

    English

    (wikipedia Holi)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A Hindu festival, held in the spring, in which people throw coloured powders at each other during noisy street celebrations.

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