feast

n

1. celebration, ceremony, rite, ritual, observance; memorialization, ritualization, commemoration, remembrance, solemnization; occasion, event, holiday, holy day, feast day, saint's day; gala day, red-letter day, anniversary, birthday, jubilee; festivity, festival, fete, revel, wassail; carnival, Mardi Gras, mi-carSme, fair, fun-fair.

2. banquet, repast, collation, meal, fare; Inf. spread, picnic, treat, garden party, Fr. fite champetre, Brit. bump-supper, Chiefly Brit. Sl. beanfeast or beanfest; barbecue, cookout, clambake, Inf. feed, Sl. blow-out, Sl. bust, junket; feasting, eating and drinking, Rare. epulation; festal cheer, good table, festive board, groaning board.

3. merrymaking, Brit. holiday-making, jollification, revelry, party; frolic, spree, whirl, lark; refreshment, entertainment, regalement, Inf. whoopee, fun, fast and furious; saturnalia, carousal, orgy, debauch, bacchanalia, bacchanal.

v

4. dine, wine, wine and dine, banquet, partake; gormandize, gorge, engorge, glut, play a good knife and fork; indulge, cram, stuff, eat one's fill, Sl. pig out.

5. entertain, treat, banquet, regale, wine and dine, dine, take out; give or throw a party for, hold a reception for; honor, do the honors, kill the fatted calf, ring the bell for; toast, salute, drink to, raise or tilt glasses to, celebrate.

6. revel, make merry, Inf. make whoopee, celebrate; carouse, wassail, roast, roister, quaff; have a good time, make it a party, paint the town red, Inf. go out on the town, Inf. do the town, Sl. whoop it up, Sl. do it up, Brit. Sl. beat it up, have fun.

7. gratify, delight, please, make happy, charm, gladden; cheer, thrill, entertain, amuse, refresh.

8. admire, relish, savor, revel in, luxuriate in, take delight in.