Kermes vs Festival - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between kermes and festival

is that kermes is kermes oak while festival is .

* chermes, chermez, kermez

any of several insects of the genus Kermes

(uncountable) Crimson dye made from the crushed bodies of these insects

* kermes mineral * kermes oak

(wikipedia festival)

(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 [...].

(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.