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Festival

Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

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Bacchanalia 76% connected

A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

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Carnival 76% connected

A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days…

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Eisteddfod 76% connected

Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old cust…

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Saturnalia 76% connected

The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and m…

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Celebration 76% connected

The act, process, or time of celebrating.

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Festivity 76% connected

The condition of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Fete 92% connected

A feat.

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