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cornfest

cornfest noun: a festival celebrating the harvesting of a corn crop.

Noun

cornfest (plural cornfests)

  1. (US) A festival celebrating the harvesting of a corn crop.
    • Greater sandhill cranes take wing after a cornfest near the Rio Grande.1982, America's Wildlife Sampler, page 138
    • The cornfests later attracted as many as two hundred families, who came on the day the corn ripened to perfection.1996, William P. Everts, Stockwell of Minneapolis: A Pioneer of Social and Political Conscience
  2. (US, slang) Something very corny.
    • That old movie was a total cornfest.

Forms of cornfest

pluralcornfests

Origin of cornfest

From corn + -fest.

Questions about cornfest

What does cornfest mean?
Cornfest means a festival celebrating the harvesting of a corn crop.
What part of speech is cornfest?
Cornfest is a noun.
What is the plural of cornfest?
The plural of cornfest is cornfests.

Words near cornfest in the dictionary

  1. Corneys
  2. corneæ
  3. Cornești
  4. cornfactor
  5. cornfed
  6. cornfest
  7. cornfests
  8. cornfield
  9. cornfield meet
  10. cornfield meets
  11. cornfields

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