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fest

/fɛst/

fest noun: a gathering for a specified reason or occasion.

Noun

fest (plural fests)

  1. (in-compounds) A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.
    • a Renaissance fest
    Synonyms:
    festival
  2. (in-compounds) An event in which the act denoted by the previous noun occurs.
    • 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.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 35

fest meaning in Urdu

fest in Urdu

جشن, تہوار, تقریب, اجتماع, ڈھیری

Synonyms of fest

Forms of fest

pluralfests

Plural of fest: fests

Origin of fest

Borrowed from German Fest (“feast, festival, party”), from Middle High German fëst, from Latin festum, from which last are also English feast, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta (see these).

Words formed from fest

Words that rhyme with fest

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Questions about fest

What does fest mean?
Fest means a gathering for a specified reason or occasion.
What is fest in Urdu?
Fest in Urdu is جشن, تہوار, تقریب. See Fest meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is fest?
Fest is a noun.
How do you pronounce fest?
Fest is pronounced /fɛst/ (UK).
What is the plural of fest?
The plural of fest is fests.

Words near fest in the dictionary

  1. fessing up
  2. Fessler
  3. Fesslers
  4. fessways
  5. fesswise
  6. fest
  7. fest-goer
  8. fest-goers
  9. festa
  10. festal
  11. festally

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fest (page history and authors); fest (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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