(n.) A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
(n.) A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food.
(n.) That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.
(n.) To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
(n.) To be highly gratified or delighted.
(v. t.) To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
(v. t.) To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.
Example Sentences:
(1) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
(2) If eating is solely about nourishment then the feast in which the vast majority of us will participate on 25 December is equally an outrage.
(3) Perhaps the number of complaints an ombudsman receives is a function of the number of ambulance-chasing claims companies that are able to feast on a 25% – 40% cut of the winnings.
(4) A spectacular fall from grace on the pitch – from first to seventh, playing dour football that is anathema to fans who feasted on success throughout the Ferguson era – will also lead to renewed scrutiny of the club's controversial US owners, the Glazer family , away from it.
(5) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
(6) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
(7) After saying his prayer, Sadaullah, was entering the room where the other guests had already taken their place for the evening feast when the missile hit.
(8) Another certifier, Mohamed El-Mouelhy, said the significance of the feast day was akin to that of Christmas for Christians.
(9) The Great Beauty is intentionally overwhelming; its feast of riches borderline nauseating.
(10) His offices released statements about meetings with cabinet ministers to discuss issues such as the availability of basic food items during Ramadan when Muslims feast on food after a day of dawn-to-dusk fasting.
(11) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
(12) The €31.5bn aid tranche has become "a bit of a moveable feast", Helena says.
(13) Graham Linehan , when we meet as the others grab sandwiches, is flustered from traffic but more so, I suspect, from, at the moment, being the ghost at the feast.
(14) A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621.
(15) Let other 2014 commemorations of war dwell on reconciliation or shrink from triumphalism: next summer, visitors to Bannockburn's Live will enjoy a feast of martial entertainments, including, says Visit Scotland , "a spectacular re-enactment of this iconic battle close to the original site".
(16) "The text that is currently on the table contains 200 pages with a feast of alternatives and a forest of square brackets," he said.
(17) The wood-clad dining room serves four-course feasts and a decent children's menu (with free food for under-fours).
(18) During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees.
(19) Three-course gourmet vegetarian feasts include local organic wines.
(20) It was somehow fitting that the day the US and Cuba announced the end of decades of hostilities was also the feast of San Lazaro, or St Lazarus – the biblical figure who rose from the dead.
Party
Definition:
(v.) A part or portion.
(v.) A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy.
(v.) A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.
(v.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party.
(v.) One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract.
(v.) The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
(v.) Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed or antagonistic to another.
(v.) Cause; side; interest.
(v.) A person; as, he is a queer party.
(v.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.
(v.) Partial; favoring one party.
(adv.) Partly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(3) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(4) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
(5) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(7) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(8) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(9) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(10) A “significant” number of resignations from the party had come in on Tuesday and Giles queried whether the CLP still had the 500 members it needs to remain registered.
(11) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
(12) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(13) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(14) Canvassing previous Labour voters who were pro-independence or still undecided during the referendum, McGarry hears complaints that the party is no longer socialist and should not have sided with the Tories at the referendum.
(15) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(16) Sharif's family insist that he still runs the party from jail.
(17) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(18) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(19) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(20) The Nazi party’s office of racial purity claimed that the Jewish character was essentially drug-dependent.