noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beer festival (= special event where people can taste different types of beer )
a film festival
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The Berlin Film Festival attracted more than 400 films from around the world.
harvest festival
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annual
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The promoters say they hope that if the event becomes an annual festival , prices may then come down.
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The programme for the Spring Thing, Darlington's annual festival of folk music, song and dance is out.
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Suffolk, where the famous annual festival of music is held each year at Aldeburgh, is no exception.
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The pupils participate in Junior School Assemblies twice a week and play an important part in the annual festivals and events.
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Buxton is host to an annual summer arts festival .
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There are annual morel festivals in four Michigan towns.
great
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Bad parties are unknown, and the great New Year festival , held in December, is the highlight of the calendar.
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What was done at his great festival was open to all the world and is a living influence today.
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At one of their great festivals they have the ritual of driving out the devils from their bodies.
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The great festival , in September, came only every five years, but it lasted for nine days.
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This is the answer of the messenger: Great is the festival hall where you are to be the only guest.
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They were expected to attend the urban celebrations of the great festivals and took part in the pageantry and the festivities.
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These are described by Ovid in his great festival poem, Fasti.
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This was one of the great Hebrew festivals and involved a sacrifice of two heifers, one ram and seven one-year-old lambs.
international
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Edinburgh international science festival will be held on 11-25 April 1992.
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Nearby, there's an international festival of children's theatre and another of street theatre and music.
large
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We're also hoping to hold our very popular large beer festival in the autumn.
major
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Throughout the year, the city hosts a varied programme of major festivals .
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The world's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months.
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Both celebrated a major birth festival on 25 December.
national
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This year the show includes the National Kelsae Onion festival and terrific nursery exhibits.
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So with another national hunt festival over let's take a last look back at Cheltenham nineteen ninety two.
religious
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By contrast, the Protestant attack on traditional religious festivals was far less successful.
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The most famous of ancient games, after all, was a religious festival in honor of Olympic Zeus.
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This crucifix is the reason for one of the biggest and oldest religious festivals in Madeira.
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All societies have social mechanisms for the release of tension, such as religious meetings, festivals and rituals.
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Public holidays and religious festivals may also affect the availability of resort and hotel facilities.
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In front of it, large-scale and public religious festivals took place, bringing temple and town together.
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The religious festival , which began last Monday undoubtedly increases market demand for cast ewes.
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The performances were part of a religious festival , the City Dionysia, in the Theatre of Dionysus.
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beer
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A BEER festival is back on after the council overturned an arts centre's refusal to hold it.
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We're also hoping to hold our very popular large beer festival in the autumn.
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National, regional and local beer festivals present a vast range of beers to the public and help gain many new members.
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But anyone who gets drunk at London's answer to the Munich beer festival is certain to be thrown out.
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It is good fun, too, for branches organise regular beer festivals and brewery visits.
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Maybe the mobile phones at the Docklands beer festival were no mere accident.
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Branches produce newsletters, local beer and pubs guides and run beer festivals .
film
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The third issue provided four pages on London's underground film festival .
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She was, of course, keenly interested in cinema, and her White House film festival was fast approaching.
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It won a prize at the 1998 Gdynia film festival .
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Kirby did manage to show it at a film festival in Florence.
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He knew nothing about film festivals or foreign things.
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The Edinburgh International Film Festival is the longest running film festival in the world and has experienced many ups and downs.
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The Cannes film festival Bonjour les Français!
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It was his first visit to a film festival anywhere in the world.
flower
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Finally, there is a flower festival on the first Sunday in August.
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Today they will hold a flower festival instead.
harvest
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To my surprise, she had never heard of harvest festivals .
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Sunday, the following afternoon, the three of us went to a harvest festival at the Athens Fairgrounds.
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It was as if a harvest festival were enacted daily, for throughout the hours of market the church bell tolled quietly.
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People used to come here at night at harvest festival time and pray and dance.
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October2000 Many Churches hold a harvest festival at this time of the year.
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One of the courgettes has been allowed to grow into a marrow, ready for our own harvest festival .
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One time the father was away on business, and the stepmother went out to a harvest festival .
jazz
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He appeared at the 1975 Berlin jazz festival with Jazztrack and with the Michael Gibbs orchestra.
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The Chicago Tribune called it the most acclaimed jazz festival in the country.
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In Aspen, Colorado, a two-day jazz festival donated its proceeds to Global ReLeaf.
music
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Later he became chairman of the orchestral committee for the Leeds music festival .
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Nevertheless, by age 5, she was competing in regional music festivals .
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Yet a link was sometimes provided by music , where the cathedral organist was involved with diocesan music festivals and other events.
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The symphony collected about 3, 000 last September during the two-day Street Scene food and music festival downtown.
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Nevertheless there will still be inter-school sport and competition at music festivals , chess championships and inter-school exhibitions of art.
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Actually, what Merola proposed was a music festival to be performed at Stanford Stadium in June 1922.
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You may also catch the village music festival with dancing happening on the third week of July.
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It is a small commercial music festival which helps to support a large free family entertainment programme.
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attend
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Nearly 8,000 children attended the festival .
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My family and I attended the festival last February.
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The world's dominant religions require members to worship at least once a week and to attend a major festival every three months.
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Read in studio A hundred and fifty thousand people are expected to attend a spectacular music festival over the weekend.
celebrate
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Hindus celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights.
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A later recognition of the relic occurred on July 23, 1894, which was celebrated by many festivals .
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Both celebrated a major birth festival on 25 December.
hold
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October2000 Many Churches hold a harvest festival at this time of the year.
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On June 30, 1564, the settlers held the first thanksgiving festival on the continent.
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Gene tells me that the citizens hold a tulip festival every year and that they also manufacture clogs.
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Today they will hold a flower festival instead.
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They're holding a huge festival in September with 70 balloons.
play
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Two years ago it worked out for me whilst I was playing the Greenbelt festival .
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His trio played the Brecon festival in 1993 and the Glasgow festival the following year.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Are you going to the Glastonbury festival this year?
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Hannukah is an eight-day Jewish festival .
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I first heard them play at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival .
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the music festival in Salzburg
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At a new universities festival in Bradford he had run into Richard Neville.
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If you care to listen and take part in our festivals, feel free.
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Jazz, film and literature festivals, entertainment spectaculars and superstar concerts.
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The Elizabethan is the heart and soul of the festival .