Festival vs Minifestival - What's the difference?
festival | minifestival |
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.
A small festival, especially a small-scale exhibition of theatrical or film works
*{{quote-news, 1970, August 3, Clive Barnes, Dance: Where the Young Don't Yawn, The New York Times
, passage=I saw it over the weekend at the Sheffield Play House, during what was described, less than felicitously perhaps, as a minifestival . }}
As nouns the difference between festival and minifestival
is that 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 while minifestival is a small festival, especially a small-scale exhibition of theatrical or film works.As an adjective festival
is pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively..festival
English
(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)minifestival
English
Alternative forms
*mini-festivalNoun
(en noun)citation