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ferial

/ˈfɛɹɪəl/

ferial adjective: pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.

Adjective

ferial (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
  2. Jovial, festive, as if pertaining to a holiday.
    • [They] / Dance within the magic shade / That makes them drunken, merry, and strong / To laugh and sing their ferial song : / ‘Free, free . . . !’1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 289
    • In ferial tone he addressed J. J. O’Molloy: — Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sick bed.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 7: Aeolus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 136

Noun

ferial (plural ferials)

  1. A feria.

Forms of ferial

pluralferials

Origin of ferial

From Middle English ferial, from Medieval Latin fēriālis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).

Questions about ferial

What does ferial mean?
Ferial means pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
What part of speech is ferial?
Ferial can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce ferial?
Ferial is pronounced /ˈfɛɹɪəl/.

Words near ferial in the dictionary

  1. ferhoodled
  2. ferhoodles
  3. ferhoodling
  4. feria
  5. feriae
  6. ferial
  7. ferials
  8. ferias
  9. feriation
  10. feridgi
  11. feridgis

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