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Regale vs Festival - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between regale and festival

is that regale is a feast, meal 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 regale

is to please or entertain (someone).

As an adjective festival is

pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively..

regale

English

Etymology

From (etyl) . Influenced in Old French by se rigoler "amuse oneself, rejoice," of unknown origin.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A feast, meal.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To please or entertain (someone).
  • * 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
  • You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel (Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly (Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.
  • To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink.
  • (obsolete) To feast ((on), (with) something).
  • *1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , V:
  • *:she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.
  • (figurative) To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.
  • to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear

    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.