• enPR: fēst, IPA: /fiːst/

feast (plural 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.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Exodus 13:6 ↗:

     The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Luke 2:41 ↗:

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

• banquet

• French: festin, banquet
• German: Festmahl, Festessen
• Italian: festa, banchetto
• Portuguese: banquete
• Russian: пир
• Spanish: festín, fiesta, comilona

• French: fête
• German: Fest
• Italian: festa
• Portuguese: festa
• Spanish: fiesta

feast (feasts, present participle feasting; past and past participle 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.

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

• French: festoyer
• German: schlemmen