What's the difference between celebration and fiesta?

Celebration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, process, or time of celebrating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
  • (2) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (3) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
  • (4) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
  • (5) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
  • (6) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (7) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (8) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (10) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
  • (11) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (12) My boyfriend and I headed to a sushi bar to celebrate.
  • (13) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
  • (14) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
  • (15) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
  • (16) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (17) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
  • (18) Roche, 30, was born in High Wycombe, but moved with her British parents to Germany as a young child, and has been a national celebrity there since her teens, presenting music and culture shows.
  • (19) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (20) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.

Fiesta


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
  • (2) The Ford Fiesta was the bestseller in August, followed by the Ford Focus and Vauxhall Corsa, mirroring the top three best sellers in the year to date.
  • (3) Basic santeria beliefs and rituals, including the fiesta santera (a gathering at which some participants may become possessed), are briefly described, and four cases in which the patients' belief in possession played a role in their mental illness are presented.
  • (4) The top three best sellers in July, and in 2014 so far, were the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Ford Focus and the Vauxhall Corsa.
  • (5) This year's fiestas are peaceful, untroubled by tensions with Eta supporters or baton charges by twitchy police.
  • (6) Parliamentary byelections, which Hanna transformed into memorable TV fiestas in the Thatcher era, have become tepid and tedious since the bonhomous Belfast bruiser quit the BBC in 1987.
  • (7) It was also the setting for the first section of Hemingway’s first, and best, novel (published in the UK as Fiesta ).
  • (8) The VW Golf was the fourth best-selling car in the UK last month, and in the year to date, behind the Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus.
  • (9) A note on the text Hemingway began writing the novel with the working title of Fiesta on his birthday, 21 July, in 1925.
  • (10) Industry observers said the programme would boost sales of smaller cars such as the Ford Fiesta and the Toyota Yaris, which are not normally discounted.
  • (11) Other significant risk factors (p.05) were drank water from container also used to dip hands (OR 4.2) and attended a fiesta (OR 3.6).
  • (12) While car sales have stalled or only inched forward across the sickly eurozone they have roared ahead in Britain, which is fast becoming an island jammed by drivers of sparkling white Ford Fiestas, bought on cheap credit.
  • (13) Each spring in Tudela there’s a festival devoted to all things green, red, yellow etc, the Jornadas de Exaltación y Fiestas de la Verdura (running until 1 May).
  • (14) Christina Garcia Rodero spent 15 years travelling around villages in Spain, photographing fiestas.
  • (15) The runs attract more than 2,000 people every morning of the nine-day fiesta.
  • (16) Shortly, there will also be a Ford Fiesta and a Smart.
  • (17) The bestseller in May was the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Corsa.
  • (18) Britain’s best-selling model remains by some margin the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus.
  • (19) In the case-control study, drinking unboiled water (odds ratio [OR] 3.1, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.3-7.3), drinking water from a household water storage container in which hands had been introduced into the water (4.2, 1.2-14.9), and going to a fiesta (social event) (3.6, 1.1-11.1) were associated with illness.
  • (20) First the Argentinian version, a jaunty instrumental number which at one point threatens to turn into the middle-eight of Fiesta by The Pogues.