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noisefest

noisefest noun: an event or situation characterized by a great deal of noise.

Noun

noisefest (plural noisefests)

  1. An event or situation characterized by a great deal of noise.
    • It’s a pretty good game, the Times admits, but it’s a noisefest rather than a real sport—a few players engaged in bewildering and rather aimless activity and a lot of spectators indulging in a purposeless riot of excitement.1917 August 24, “Baseball in London”, in The Norfolk Daily News, volume 30, number 99, Norfolk, Neb.: The Huse Publishing Company, page 4
  2. A piece of music that extensively features elements of noise.
    • After a typically amphetaminized crash course in all things Beat, locked and loaded by paint-stripping, nightly replays of the first two Velvets [the Velvet Underground] albums, [Lester] Bangs decided to send a review of the latter noisefest to that bastion of underground rock-writing, Rolling...2007, Clinton Heylin, “Prologue”, in Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 2

Forms of noisefest

pluralnoisefests

Origin of noisefest

From noise + -fest.

Questions about noisefest

What does noisefest mean?
Noisefest means an event or situation characterized by a great deal of noise.
What part of speech is noisefest?
Noisefest is a noun.
What is the plural of noisefest?
The plural of noisefest is noisefests.

Words near noisefest in the dictionary

  1. noise-shy
  2. noiseband
  3. noisebands
  4. noisecore
  5. noised
  6. noisefest
  7. noiseful
  8. noisefully
  9. noiseless
  10. noiselessly
  11. noiselessness

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