feast
noun
[ fiːst ]
• a large meal, typically a celebratory one.
• "a wedding feast"
Similar:
banquet,
celebration meal,
lavish dinner,
sumptuous repast,
large meal,
formal meal,
formal dinner,
treat,
entertainment,
jollification,
revels,
festivities,
blowout,
feed,
junket,
spread,
binge,
bash,
do,
nosh-up,
beanfeast,
bunfight,
beano,
scoff,
slap-up meal,
tuck-in,
• an annual religious celebration.
• "a feast day"
feast
verb
• eat and drink sumptuously.
• "the men would congregate and feast after hunting"
Similar:
gorge on,
dine on,
eat one's fill of,
indulge in,
overindulge in,
eat,
devour,
consume,
partake of,
banquet,
binge on,
binge-eat,
stuff one's face with,
stuff oneself with,
stuff down,
shovel down,
wolf down,
pig oneself on,
pig out on,
make a pig of oneself on,
cram in,
tuck into,
put away,
pack away,
make short work of,
get outside of,
gollop,
shift,
get one's laughing gear round,
snarf,
gourmandize,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French feste (noun), fester (verb), from Latin festa, neuter plural of festus ‘joyous’. Compare with fete and fiesta.
