festival

  1. Adjective.  Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.).
  2. Noun.  An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
  3. Noun.  In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

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