feast-day

Religious annual observance

A feast-day is a day of religious celebration or commemoration, typically honoring a saint, holy event, or sacred mystery in the Christian calendar: The village holds a procession on the patron saint's feast-day.

More broadly, any day of celebration or festivity.

Also written as two words or one: feast day, feastday.

celebration

festival

Organized public celebration

  • carnivalTraveling amusement attraction
  • paradeCeremonial public procession
  • galaFestive formal occasion

jubilee · revelry · fete · pageant · fair · fiesta · merrymaking · gathering · commemoration · ceremony

religious

sabbath

Designated period of repose

vespers · matins · epiphany · lent · advent · pilgrimage · saints · patron · observance · consecration

banquet

banquet

Formal celebratory meal

buffet · courses · platter · culinary · dining · savory · appetizer · entree · dessert · gastronomy

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liturgical/religious significance

feast-dayAsh Wednesday

Lent's opening day

Good Friday · Yom Kippur

temporal distinction

feast-dayferia

Hispanic public celebration

weekday · working day

abundance and consumption

feast-dayfast

Speedy, or skip eating

famine

Family

feast, day, feasts, feasted, feasting, feaster, days, daily

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