feastとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-.

名詞

feast (複数形 feasts)

1. A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

   We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.

2. Something delightful

   It was a feast for the eyes.

3. A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
   • Bible, Exodus xiii. 6

     The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

   • Bible, Luke ii. 41

     Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

同意語

• banquet

派生語

• afterfeast
• feast-day
• feast for the eyes
• feastful
• feastly
• Feast of Asses
• Feast of Fools
• forefeast
• Great Feasts
• love feast
• postfeast

語源 2

From Middle English feesten, festen, from Old French fester, from Medieval Latin festāre, from the noun. See above.

動詞

feast (三人称単数 現在形 feasts, 現在分詞 feasting, 過去形および過去分詞形 feasted)

1. (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.

   I feasted on turkey and dumplings.

2. (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 47”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.

3. (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).

   We feasted them after the victory.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
   • (Can we date this quote by Bishop Joseph Hall かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.

派生語

• feaster
• feast one’s eyes

アナグラム

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