Definition of "festival" in English

adjective

1. Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)

noun

1. (biblical) A feast or feast day.

2. An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.

   • The Reading and Leeds festivals take place on the August bank holiday.
   • A Welsh eisteddfod is a literary festival.

3. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

4. (Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable) Fried cornbread.