feasting

verbeat a great amount or very well

Synonyms for feasting

verb eat a great amount or very well

Antonyms for feasting

Word Origin & History

c.1200, "religious anniversary characterized by rejoicing" (rather than fasting), from Old French feste (12c., Modern French fête) "religious festival; noise, racket," from Vulgar Latin *festa (fem. singular; also source of Italian festa, Spanish fiesta), from Latin festa "holidays, feasts," noun use of neuter plural of festus "festive, joyful, merry," related to feriae "holiday" and fanum "temple," from PIE *dhes- "root of words in religious concepts" [Watkins]. The spelling -ea- was used in Middle English to represent the sound we mis-call "long e." Meaning "abundant meal" (whether public or private) is from late 14c.

Example Sentences for feasting

We are not feasting on baked swans, peacock tongues and drinking our pearls.

It is a common thing now to see a dozen Bears feasting there at one time.

They come to life and retire to the hall for feasting and revelry.

For ten days there was feasting and games in the palace in honor of Silenus.

Bowed then to bench those bearers-of-glory, fain of the feasting.

It was gayly remarked, however, that they were quite entitled to their turn of feasting.

Yet she could sit there, laughing and feasting and trulling it lightly with the Legate!

In this house there was much happiness, but there was no preparation for feasting on the morrow.

They had been feasting a poet from the bush, the latest discovery of the Editor.

At the end of a week of feasting and weariness, I returned to Warsaw.

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