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Festival vs Rockfest - What's the difference?

festival | rockfest |

As nouns the difference between festival and rockfest

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 rockfest is a rock music festival.

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)
  • 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

    rockfest

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A rock music festival.
  • * 1971 , Stephen Spender, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Irving Kristol, Encounter: Volume 36
    • special permission for them to use Meridian Hill Park for a rockfest and rally, where they were entertained by The Lumpen — the Panther rock band.
  • * 1997 , SPIN (volume 13, number 6, September 1997, page 67)
    • Still, rockfests persist as a decent way to raise a buck, if you're not incompetent or scheisty, and Yauch's nonprofit group, the Milarepa Fund, is neither.