Feast vs. Festival — What's the Difference?

A large, elaborately prepared meal, usually for many persons and often accompanied by entertainment; a banquet.

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid.

A meal that is well prepared and abundantly enjoyed.

A day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons

A periodic religious festival commemorating an event or honoring a god or saint.

An organized series of concerts, plays, or films, typically one held annually in the same place

Something giving great pleasure or satisfaction

An occasion for feasting or celebration, especially a day or time of religious significance that recurs at regular intervals.

To give a feast for; entertain or feed sumptuously

An often regularly recurring program of cultural performances, exhibitions, or competitions

To partake of a feast; eat heartily.

Revelry; conviviality.

To experience something with gratification or delight

Of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival; festive.

A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. Now only as the noun used attributively.

Something delightful

(Bible) A feast or feast day.

A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.

(intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.

In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

(intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.

Fried cornbread.

(transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).

Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.

A day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

An organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place);

A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.

That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.

To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.

To be highly gratified or delighted.

To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.

To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.

A ceremonial dinner party for many people

Something experienced with great delight;

A meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed;

An elaborate party (often outdoors)

Partake in a feast or banquet

Provide a feast or banquet for

Gratify;