fest
nounUK, US /fɛst/
Etymology Borrowed from German Fest (“feast, festival, party”), from Middle High German fëst, from Latin festum, from which last are also English feast, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta (see these).
1
In compounds A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.
- a Renaissance fest
2
In compounds An event in which the act denoted by the previous noun occurs.
- 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.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 35:
- Derived terms
- afterfest, -fest, festgoer, fest-goer, fleshfest, flesh fest, fruitfest, glitchfest, glitch fest, Ren fest, sausagefest, sausage fest, taco fest, zest fest
- Related terms
- festschrift