Fete vs Jubilee - What's the difference?
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A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
* 1991 , Treasure Hunting , Treasure Hunting Publications:
A feast, celebration or carnival.
(usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).
* 1992 , Today , News Group Newspapers Ltd:
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 120:
A fiftieth anniversary.
(Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then fifty, and then fewer) in which remission from sin could be granted as well as indulgences upon making a pilgrimage to Rome.
A time of celebration or rejoicing.
(obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.5:
Fete is a related term of jubilee.
As verbs the difference between fete and jubilee
is that fete is while jubilee is .fete
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- The final fete of the year was held at the Plymouth Hoe on 20 July, where fine weather and crowds of people ensured much support for local charities and boosted club finds.
Verb
(fet)- Danielle Salamon was also four when she was feted as a musical genius in 1953.
Synonyms
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* English terms derived from French ----jubilee
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(wikipedia jubilee)Alternative forms
* jubileNoun
(en noun)- in the old Israel, there had supposedly been a system of ‘Jubilee ’, a year in which all land should go back to the family to which it had originally belonged and during which all slaves should be released.
- How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede [...] that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.