[ UK /fˈɛstɪvə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈfɛstəvəɫ, ˈfɛstɪvəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
  2. an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)
    a drama festival
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How To Use festival In A Sentence

  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • When my sister taught at a junior school they celebrated all the religious festivals.
  • It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
  • It sounds good and if it does result in more properly-managed concerts, fairs, festivals and community events being staged in the city's parks it has to be good news.
  • Her film was premiered in Cannes Festival.
  • In neopaganism, the spring and autumn equinoxes are called Ostara and Mabon, respectively, although these names are modern in origin and don't correspond to any ancient festivals. CBC | Top Stories News
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • The Spring Festival Eve is the time for a family reunion.
  • Thus, this festival brings together the richness of the Indian kitchen with its spices and subtle shades of taste and texture.
  • Makar Sankrant is the first Hindu festival of the solar calendar year, falling on January 14.
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