transcription, транскрипция: [ festɪv(ə)l ]
( festivals)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A festival is an organized series of events such as musical concerts or drama productions.
Numerous Umbrian towns hold their own summer festivals of music, theatre, and dance...
There are over 350 films in the Edinburgh Film Festival this year.
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A festival is a day or time of the year when people have a holiday from work and celebrate some special event, often a religious event.
...the Hindu festival of Diwali.
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