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Festival vs Prefestival - What's the difference?

festival | prefestival |

As a noun festival

is .

As an adjective prefestival is

before a festival.

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.
  • prefestival

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Before a festival.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 11, author=Jeff Leeds, title=Concert Industry Is Banking on a Festive Summer, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Bonnaroo, held on several hundred acres of Tennessee farmland, where fans camp for the weekend (June 12 to 15), is marketing V.I.P. passes, which include access to a private prefestival party and special restroom and shower facilities, for $1,169.50 per pair. }}