fest

Borrowed from German Fest (“feast, festival, party”), from Middle High German fest, from Latin festum, from which last are also English feast, festival, festivity (see these).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /fɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Homophones: fessed, -fest

fest (plural fests)

1. (in combination) A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.

   Synonym: festival

   a Renaissance fest

2. (in combination) An event in which the act denoted by the previous noun occurs.
   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 35:

     That same trip would have to go down as the greatest dipping fest in Australian birding history. I had five target species and never saw one, despite spending a week looking for them.

• festschrift

• ETFs, FETs, FTEs, FTSE, Stef, efts, fets, tefs

Borrowed from German fest.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛst]

fest m anim

1. (archaic) undestroyable person
2. (archaic) mummy

• fext, fekst

fest (comparative více fest, superlative nejvíce fest)

1. (informal) firmly, tightly

   Drž to fest. ― Hold it firmly

2. (informal) much

• fest in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• fest in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from German Fest, from Latin fēstum (“holiday, festival, banquet, feast”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛsd/, [ˈfesd̥], [ˈfest]

fest c (singular definite festen, plural indefinite fester)

1. party
2. celebration
3. festival
4. feast
5. fête

• “fest” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle High German vest, from Old High German festi, from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz; see there for cognates and further etymology.

• IPA^(key): /fɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

fest (strong nominative masculine singular fester, comparative fester, superlative am festesten)

1. firm; compact; hard
2. firm; fixed; rigid
3. firm; steadfast
   1. (informal) of a long-term romantic relationship

      Ein One-Night-Stand ist mir genug, ich möchte gerade noch nichts Festes.

      A one-night stand is enough for me, I'm not looking for anything long-term right now.

      fester Freund ― boyfriend (as opposed to a platonic friend)

• Fest – n. festival
• feste – adv. hard, firmly
• flüssig, gasförmig

• “fest” in Duden online
• “fest” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

First attested in c. 1372. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pëčɜ- (“color; to color, paint”)[1][2] + -t (causative suffix).[3]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɛʃt]

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃt

fest

1. (transitive) to paint (something a colour: -ra/-re)

   Coordinate term: mázol

   Pirosra festettem az autómat. ― I painted my car red.

2. (transitive) to dye
3. (intransitive) to look in some way

   Synonyms: kinéz, látszik, tűnik

   Hogy fest? ― What does it look like?

   • 1989, John Updike (author), translated by Árpád Göncz, Így látja Roger [Roger's Version], Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, →ISBN, page 203:

     Dale nem festett valami jól; viaszos sápadtsága szinte beteges volt. S mintha izzadt volna; ingzubbonya fölé kockás sportzakót vett, s e kettő nagyon nem illett össze.

     Dale didn't look well for this interview; his waxy pallor had slid over into the sickly. He seemed to be sweating, and he had put on a checkered sports jacket over his lumberjack shirt, with discordant effect.

The stative types of the sense verbs feel, smell, and taste are uncommon in Hungarian (i.e., those expressing some sensory information conveyed, in contrast to the voluntary actions of using these senses or the involuntary perception). Instead, adjectival (-ú/-ű/-jú/-jű) and possessive (…-a/-e/-ja/-je van) constructions are used, and these are also applicable for sound. (The first two rows are for action verbs and perception verbs that behave similarly to English.)

On the other hand, certain verbs can express particular sensory impressions, e.g. illatozik (“to smell sweet, to be fragrant”) and bűzlik (“to stink, to reek”).

(With verbal prefixes):

From Middle High German vest, from Old High German festi, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz. Cognate with German fest, Dutch vast, English fast, Icelandic fastur.

• IPA^(key): /fæst/
• Homophone: Fest

fest (masculine festen, neuter fest, comparative méi fest, superlative am feststen)

1. firm, hard
2. solid
3. rigid
4. fixed, fast

fest

1. to feast

From Middle High German fëst, from Latin festum. Cognate with German Fest.

fest n

1. holiday, festival

• “fest” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

From Latin festum.

fest m (definite singular festen, indefinite plural fester, definite plural festene)

1. celebration, party
2. (religion) feast, festival

• (party): party

• bryllupsfest
• festlig
• folkefest
• hagefest

• feste (sense 2)

fest

1. imperative of feste

• “fest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin festum.

fest m (definite singular festen, indefinite plural festar, definite plural festane)

1. celebration, party, festivity

   Synonyms: party, selskap

2. (religion) feast, festival

• festa, feste (verb)

• ferie

From Old Norse festr f, whence also fester.

fest f (definite singular festa, indefinite plural fester, definite plural festene)

1. a betrothal

   Dei gjekk i festom. ― They were engaged.

2. Alternative form of fester (“rope to moor boats with”)

In the sense of an engagement to marry:

Inflected forms of festa, feste (“to fasten”).

fest (definite singular and plural feste)

1. past participle of festa and feste
   1. fastened
   2. engaged

• festa

• grunnfest
• grunnlovsfest
• lovfest

fest

1. inflection of festa:
   1. imperative
   2. supine

Inflected form of festa, feste (“to party”)

fest

1. imperative of festa

• “fest” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inflected forms of festa (“to fasten”).

fest

1. strong feminine nominative singular of festr
2. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of festr
3. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural of festr

fest

1. second-person singular imperative active of festa
2. supine of festa

• stef

Borrowed from German fest, from Middle High German vest, from Old High German festi, from Proto-West Germanic *fast, from Proto-Germanic *fastuz.

• IPA^(key): /fɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Syllabification: fest

fest (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (colloquial) perky, robust, vigorous

   Synonyms: dziarski, krzepki, silny

Indeclinable.

fest (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) firmly, strongly

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bardzo

fest m inan

1. (archaic) celebration, ceremony, function

   Synonyms: święto, uroczystość

• fest in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fest in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• fejst

Borrowed from German fest.

fest (Cyrillic spelling фест)

1. (Kajkavian) very
2. (Kajkavian) intensively
3. (Kajkavian) tightly, strongly, firmly

• jako, čvrsto, intenzivno

Borrowed from German fest. Compare Kashubian fëst

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst
• Syllabification: fest

fest

1. firmly
2. a lot

• fest in silling.org

From Latin festum.

• IPA^(key): /fɛsːt/

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• Homophone: fäst

fest c

1. party, celebration

   Synonyms: kalas, party

• festa
• festprisse

fest

1. Alternative form of hist (“fist”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40