[
US
/ˈfeɪt/
]
NOUN
- an elaborate party (often outdoors)
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an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)
a drama festival
VERB
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have a celebration
They were feting the patriarch of the family
After the exam, the students were celebrating
How To Use fete In A Sentence
- -- This is the regulation relative to the dues legally established by Italis-Baal, the suffete, son of Bod-tanith, son of In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
- The body was buffeted about in the waves.
- On the ground she was fêted with lavish hospitality by friends waiting at every far-flung airfield to whisk her off to a celebratory feast.
- She reached the doors of the college cafeteria, slamming them behind her and locking the door. Times, Sunday Times
- Like the soapbox speakers, the cafeterias offered working-class people places to debate and discuss a wide range of issues.
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- The following year the ‘Marseillaise’ was adopted as the national anthem, and the 14 July as a national fête, to join the tricolor as the national flag.
- That was until a gondola linking the village to the much fêted Verbier was installed. Times, Sunday Times
- The village has been buffeted by mudflows, landslides, river debris, flooding and earthquakes.
- Liminal phases of rites of passage, carnivals, and fêtes are often pervaded by images of chaos and misrule.