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English
Etymology
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).
Pronunciation
Noun
fest (plural fests)
- (in combination) A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.
- Synonym: festival
- a Renaissance fest
- (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.
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Czech
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fest m anim
Declension
Declension of fest (hard masculine animate)
Alternative forms
Adverb
fest (comparative více fest, superlative nejvíce fest)
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Further reading
- “fest”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “fest”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
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Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Fest, from Latin fēstum (“holiday, festival, banquet, feast”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fest c (singular definite festen, plural indefinite fester)
Declension
Derived terms
- branchefolksfest
References
- “fest” in Den Danske Ordbog
German
Alternative forms
- vest (obsolete)
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fest (strong nominative masculine singular fester, comparative fester, superlative am festesten)
- firm; compact; hard
- firm; fixed; rigid
- firm; steadfast
- (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)
- (informal) of a long-term romantic relationship
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