FESTIVAL


Meaning of FESTIVAL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a beer festival (= special event where people can taste different types of beer )

a film festival

The Berlin Film Festival attracted more than 400 films from around the world.

harvest festival

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

annual

The promoters say they hope that if the event becomes an annual festival , prices may then come down.

The programme for the Spring Thing, Darlington's annual festival of folk music, song and dance is out.

Suffolk, where the famous annual festival of music is held each year at Aldeburgh, is no exception.

The pupils participate in Junior School Assemblies twice a week and play an important part in the annual festivals and events.

Buxton is host to an annual summer arts festival .

There are annual morel festivals in four Michigan towns.

great

Bad parties are unknown, and the great New Year festival , held in December, is the highlight of the calendar.

What was done at his great festival was open to all the world and is a living influence today.

At one of their great festivals they have the ritual of driving out the devils from their bodies.

The great festival , in September, came only every five years, but it lasted for nine days.

This is the answer of the messenger: Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest.

They were expected to attend the urban celebrations of the great festivals and took part in the pageantry and the festivities.

These are described by Ovid in his great festival poem, Fasti.

This was one of the great Hebrew festivals and involved a sacrifice of two heifers, one ram and seven one-year-old lambs.

international

Edinburgh international science festival will be held on 11-25 April 1992.

Nearby, there's an international festival of children's theatre and another of street theatre and music.

large

We're also hoping to hold our very popular large beer festival in the autumn.

major

Throughout the year, the city hosts a varied programme of major festivals .

The world's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months.

Both celebrated a major birth festival on 25 December.

national

This year the show includes the National Kelsae Onion festival and terrific nursery exhibits.

So with another national hunt festival over let's take a last look back at Cheltenham nineteen ninety two.

religious

By contrast, the Protestant attack on traditional religious festivals was far less successful.

The most famous of ancient games, after all, was a religious festival in honor of Olympic Zeus.

This crucifix is the reason for one of the biggest and oldest religious festivals in Madeira.

All societies have social mechanisms for the release of tension, such as religious meetings, festivals and rituals.

Public holidays and religious festivals may also affect the availability of resort and hotel facilities.

In front of it, large-scale and public religious festivals took place, bringing temple and town together.

The religious festival , which began last Monday undoubtedly increases market demand for cast ewes.

The performances were part of a religious festival , the City Dionysia, in the Theatre of Dionysus.

■ NOUN

beer

A BEER festival is back on after the council overturned an arts centre's refusal to hold it.

We're also hoping to hold our very popular large beer festival in the autumn.

National, regional and local beer festivals present a vast range of beers to the public and help gain many new members.

But anyone who gets drunk at London's answer to the Munich beer festival is certain to be thrown out.

It is good fun, too, for branches organise regular beer festivals and brewery visits.

Maybe the mobile phones at the Docklands beer festival were no mere accident.

Branches produce newsletters, local beer and pubs guides and run beer festivals .

film

The third issue provided four pages on London's underground film festival .

She was, of course, keenly interested in cinema, and her White House film festival was fast approaching.

It won a prize at the 1998 Gdynia film festival .

Kirby did manage to show it at a film festival in Florence.

He knew nothing about film festivals or foreign things.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival is the longest running film festival in the world and has experienced many ups and downs.

The Cannes film festival Bonjour les Français!

It was his first visit to a film festival anywhere in the world.

flower

Finally, there is a flower festival on the first Sunday in August.

Today they will hold a flower festival instead.

harvest

To my surprise, she had never heard of harvest festivals .

Sunday, the following afternoon, the three of us went to a harvest festival at the Athens Fairgrounds.

It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily, for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly.

People used to come here at night at harvest festival time and pray and dance.

October2000 Many Churches hold a harvest festival at this time of the year.

One of the courgettes has been allowed to grow into a marrow, ready for our own harvest festival .

One time the father was away on business, and the stepmother went out to a harvest festival .

jazz

He appeared at the 1975 Berlin jazz festival with Jazztrack and with the Michael Gibbs orchestra.

The Chicago Tribune called it the most acclaimed jazz festival in the country.

In Aspen, Colorado, a two-day jazz festival donated its proceeds to Global ReLeaf.

music

Later he became chairman of the orchestral committee for the Leeds music festival .

Nevertheless, by age 5, she was competing in regional music festivals .

Yet a link was sometimes provided by music , where the cathedral organist was involved with diocesan music festivals and other events.

The symphony collected about 3, 000 last September during the two-day Street Scene food and music festival downtown.

Nevertheless there will still be inter-school sport and competition at music festivals , chess championships and inter-school exhibitions of art.

Actually, what Merola proposed was a music festival to be performed at Stanford Stadium in June 1922.

You may also catch the village music festival with dancing happening on the third week of July.

It is a small commercial music festival which helps to support a large free family entertainment programme.

■ VERB

attend

Nearly 8,000 children attended the festival .

My family and I attended the festival last February.

The world's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months.

Read in studio A hundred and fifty thousand people are expected to attend a spectacular music festival over the weekend.

celebrate

Hindus celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights.

A later recognition of the relic occurred on July 23, 1894, which was celebrated by many festivals .

Both celebrated a major birth festival on 25 December.

hold

October2000 Many Churches hold a harvest festival at this time of the year.

On June 30, 1564, the settlers held the first thanksgiving festival on the continent.

Gene tells me that the citizens hold a tulip festival every year and that they also manufacture clogs.

Today they will hold a flower festival instead.

They're holding a huge festival in September with 70 balloons.

play

Two years ago it worked out for me whilst I was playing the Greenbelt festival .

His trio played the Brecon festival in 1993 and the Glasgow festival the following year.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Are you going to the Glastonbury festival this year?

Hannukah is an eight-day Jewish festival .

I first heard them play at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival .

the music festival in Salzburg

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At a new universities festival in Bradford he had run into Richard Neville.

If you care to listen and take part in our festivals, feel free.

Jazz, film and literature festivals, entertainment spectaculars and superstar concerts.

The Elizabethan is the heart and soul of the festival .

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