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Feast

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

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Verb group 4

Banquet 84% connected

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Banquet 84% connected

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

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Junket 84% connected

A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

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Junket 84% connected

A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

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Broader term 9

Dinner 76% connected

The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Eat 76% connected

of Eat

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Host 76% connected

The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

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Meal 76% connected

A part; a fragment; a portion.

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Party 76% connected

A part or portion.

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Regale 76% connected

A prerogative of royalty.

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Repast 76% connected

The act of taking food.

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Thing 76% connected

Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Narrower term 1

Gaudy 76% connected

Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

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Derivationally related 6

Banquet 74% connected

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Banquet 74% connected

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Feed 74% connected

of Fee

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Feed 74% connected

of Fee

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Fete 74% connected

A feat.

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Fete 74% connected

A feat.

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Synonym 5

Banquet 92% connected

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Feed 92% connected

of Fee

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Fete 92% connected

A feat.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Junket 92% connected

A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Spread 92% connected

of Spread

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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