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songfest

songfest noun: an event, often informal, where people sing together for the pleasure of it.

Noun

songfest (plural songfests)

  1. An event, often informal, where people sing together for the pleasure of it.
    • The routine business took an hour; for another hour the shareholders and proxies and company officers held a Yoyodyne songfest.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 59

Forms of songfest

pluralsongfests

Origin of songfest

From song + -fest.

Questions about songfest

What does songfest mean?
Songfest means an event, often informal, where people sing together for the pleasure of it.
What part of speech is songfest?
Songfest is a noun.
What is the plural of songfest?
The plural of songfest is songfests.

Words near songfest in the dictionary

  1. Songdo Point
  2. songe
  3. songer
  4. songers
  5. songes
  6. songfest
  7. songfests
  8. songfic
  9. songfics
  10. songflight
  11. songflights

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