How to pronounce “festival”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
• [Noun]
• (biblical) A feast or feast day.
• 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.
• In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
• (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.

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