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feasting

feasting is the present participle and gerund of feast.

Meaning of feast

Verb

feast (third-person singular simple present feasts, present participle feasting, simple past and past participle feasted)

  1. (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.
    • I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
  2. (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
    • With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 47”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  3. (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
    • He that shall see this day, and live old age,
      Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors
      And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
    • Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

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Noun

feasting (plural feastings)

  1. A feast, or an occasion on which people or animals feast
    • The lover at last fell ill; he fairly wasted away; and was so unhappy, that he gave up all his feastings and entertainments.1846, Leigh Hunt, Stories from the Italian Poets= With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2
    • There was hooch galore, and meat and feastings, and they took kindly to the new order.1904, Jack London, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Forms of feasting

pluralfeastings

Phrases with feasting

Questions about feasting

What does feasting mean?
Feasting means a feast, or an occasion on which people or animals feast.
What is feasting the present participle and gerund of?
Feasting is the present participle and gerund of feast.
What part of speech is feasting?
Feasting is a noun.
What is the plural of feasting?
The plural of feasting is feastings.

Words near feasting in the dictionary

  1. feastest
  2. feasteth
  3. feastful
  4. feastfully
  5. feastfuls
  6. feasting
  7. feasting one's eyes
  8. feastinge
  9. feastinges
  10. feastings
  11. feastiuall

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