Feast

  • 31Feast II — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Le Cercle. Feast II Données clés Titre original Feast II: Sloppy Seconds Réalisation John Gulager Scénario Patrick Melton …

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  • 32feast — 1. noun 1) a wedding feast Syn: banquet, celebration meal, lavish dinner; entertainment; revels, festivities; informal blowout, spread 2) the feast of St. Stephen Syn: (religious) festival, feast day, saint s day …

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  • 33feast — 1. noun /fiːst/ a) A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. We had a feast to celebrate the harvest. b) Something delightful It was a feast for the eyes. Syn …

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  • 34feast — [13] The notion of ‘eating’ is a secondary semantic development for feast, whose underlying meaning (as may be guessed from the related festival [14] and festivity [14]) has more to do with joyousness than with the appeasement of hunger. Its… …

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  • 35feast on — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms feast on : present tense I/you/we/they feast on he/she/it feasts on present participle feasting on past tense feasted on past participle feasted on feast on something to eat a lot of a particular food with… …

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  • 36feast — see after the feast comes the reckoning the company makes the feast enough is as good as a feast …

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  • 37feast — [13] The notion of ‘eating’ is a secondary semantic development for feast, whose underlying meaning (as may be guessed from the related festival [14] and festivity [14]) has more to do with joyousness than with the appeasement of hunger. Its… …

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  • 38Feast — The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to our world made our days turn out to be a continuous feast. The feast reminds us of God s redeeming deeds with us, or His work through the martyrs and saints lives …

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  • 39Feast — This unusual surname of Germanic origin, is an interesting example of that sizeable group of early European surnames that were gradually created from the habitual use of nicknames. These nicknames were given with reference to a variety of… …

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  • 40feast — noun 1》 a large meal, especially a celebratory one.     ↘a plentiful supply of something enjoyable. 2》 an annual religious celebration.     ↘a day dedicated to a particular saint.     ↘Brit. an annual village festival. verb eat and drink lavishly …

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