feast
any rich or abundant meal: The steak dinner was a feast.
a sumptuous entertainment or meal for many guests: a wedding feast.
something highly agreeable: The Rembrandt exhibition was a feast for the eyes.
a periodical celebration or time of celebration, usually of a religious nature, commemorating an event, person, etc.: Every year, in September, the townspeople have a feast in honor of their patron saint.
to have or partake of a feast; eat sumptuously.
to dwell with gratification or delight, as on a picture or view.
to provide or entertain with a feast.
Idioms about feast
feast one's eyes, to gaze with great joy, admiration, or relish: to feast one's eyes on the Grand Canyon.
Origin of feast
1synonym study For feast
Other words from feast
- feaster, noun
- feastless, adjective
- outfeast, verb (used with object)
- o·ver·feast, verb
- pre·feast, noun
- un·feast·ed, adjective
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How to use feast in a sentence
George had to go inside to take a phone call so I sat feasting my eyes on the beauty of the surroundings.
When Gary Wright Met George Harrison: Dream Weaver, John and Yoko, and More | Gary Wright | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUpon entering, I spot Sevigny seated in the back, feasting on a plate of oysters, a goat cheese salad, and iced tea.
Chloe Sevigny on ‘The Cosmopolitans,’ New York’s Frat Boy Takeover, and ‘Asshole’ Michael Alig | Marlow Stern | August 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRather than be instructional or cautionary, the show turns its subjects into feasting zoo objects for audiences to gawk at.
‘The Man With the 132 Lb. Scrotum’: TLC’s Lowest Show Yet? | Kevin Fallon | August 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen the soil temperature reaches 64 degrees, I'll be feasting like a king.
Virtually every journalist in D.C. is feasting on the sex scandal.
Petraeus Fever Paralyzes Washington as the Media Pounce on Sex Scandal | Howard Kurtz | November 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Banquets and feasting offered little attraction to the hero, and he despised riches and rank.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonNone would have believed that the cowardly monster Fear was for ever feasting upon his heart.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodBefore 1806 the election took place with great ceremony and feasting, and sometimes fighting, in the Campo de Sta.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamIt was late when we sat down to it, eight o'clock; and there was a good deal of feasting and plenty of wine.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodThe children also took part in the general feasting, and they too swarmed about the whales like a plague of ants.
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont | Louis de Rougemont
British Dictionary definitions for feast
/ (fiːst) /
a large and sumptuous meal, usually given as an entertainment for several people
a periodic religious celebration
something extremely pleasing or sumptuous: a feast for the eyes
movable feast a festival or other event of variable date
(intr)
to eat a feast
(usually foll by on) to enjoy the eating (of), as if feasting: to feast on cakes
(tr) to give a feast to
(intr foll by on) to take great delight (in): to feast on beautiful paintings
(tr) to regale or delight: to feast one's mind or one's eyes
Origin of feast
1Derived forms of feast
- feaster, noun
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