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Fete vs Jubilee - What's the difference?

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Fete is a related term of jubilee.


As verbs the difference between fete and jubilee

is that fete is while jubilee is .

fete

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
  • * 1991 , Treasure Hunting , Treasure Hunting Publications:
  • 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.
  • A feast, celebration or carnival.
  • Verb

    (fet)
  • (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).
  • * 1992 , Today , News Group Newspapers Ltd:
  • Danielle Salamon was also four when she was feted as a musical genius in 1953.

    Synonyms

    * celebrate

    jubilee

    Alternative forms

    * jubile

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 120:
  • 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.
  • 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:
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * silver jubilee

    References