Festival vs Symposium - What's the difference?
festival | symposium |
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.
A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
(in ancient Greece ) A drinking party, especially one with intellectual discussion.
As nouns the difference between festival and symposium
is that 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 while symposium is a conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.As an adjective festival
is pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively..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 [...].