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prefeast

prefeast adjective: before a feast.

Adjective

prefeast (not comparable)

  1. Before a feast.
    • Many Lubavitch weddings serve just a few pickups before the main meal, maybe some knishes and some egg rolls. Others go all out. The Kassins offered up a prefeast feast.2003, Stephanie Wellen Levine, Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers, page 153

Noun

prefeast (plural prefeasts)

  1. A feast held before an event.
    • Like the previous holy day, this one too has a prefeast.2002, Solia: The Herald, volume 67, page 3

Forms of prefeast

pluralprefeasts

Origin of prefeast

From pre- + feast.

Questions about prefeast

What does prefeast mean?
Prefeast means before a feast.
What part of speech is prefeast?
Prefeast can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near prefeast in the dictionary

  1. prefatigued
  2. prefatorial
  3. prefatorily
  4. prefatory
  5. prefeasibility
  6. prefeast
  7. prefeasts
  8. prefect
  9. prefecthood
  10. prefectoral
  11. prefectorial

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