Holidays vs Festival - What's the difference?
holidays | festival |
The season around Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's Day.
(holiday)
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.
As nouns the difference between holidays and festival
is that holidays is plural of lang=en while 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.As a verb holidays
is third-person singular of holiday.As an adjective festival is
pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively..holidays
English
Noun
(head)- Where will you be spending the holidays ?
Verb
(head)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 [...].
