feast

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 fēst

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A holiday, festival, especially a religious one
    — The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
  2. A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
    — We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
  3. Something delightful
    — It was a feast for the eyes.
动词 v.
  1. To partake in a feast, or large meal. intransitive
    — I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
  2. To dwell upon (something) with delight. intransitive
    — With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.
  3. To hold a feast in honor of (someone). transitive
    — He that shall see this day, and live old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”
  4. To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously. obsolete,transitive
    — 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.

词形变化

feasts plural feasts present,singular,third-person feasting participle,present feasted participle,past feasted past

词汇关系

衍生词
a contented mind is a perpetual feast afterfeast Barmecide feast bean-feast beanfeast bean feast birthfeast bull feast double feast Dutch feast enough is as good as a feast feast day feast for the eyes feastful feastless feastlike feastly Feast of Asses Feast of Fools Feast of Light Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels Feast of the Circumcision of Christ Feast of the Divine Mercy Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus Feast of Trumpets Feast of Tsing Ming Feast of Weeks feast or famine famine or feast feastware Feast Week feasty festive fixed feast forefeast ghost at the feast Great Feasts hog feast love feast midnight feast movable feast moveable feast postfeast prefeast run feast silver feast silver-feast skeleton at the feast smell-feast specter at the feast spectre at the feast feaster feast one's eyes feasting outfeast unfeasted

词源

词源 1
From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate.
词源 2
From Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester, from Medieval Latin festāre, from the noun. See above.
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