festival
(festɪvəl )
Word forms: festivals
1. countable noun B1
A festival is an organized series of events such as musical concerts or drama productions.
Numerous Umbrian towns hold their own summer festivals of music, theatre, and dance.
I had just returned from the Cannes Film Festival.
2. countable noun B1
A festival is a day or time of the year when people have a holiday from work and celebrate some special event, often a religious event.
...the Hindu festival of Diwali.
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Collocations:
comedy festival cultural festival famous festival festival director festival favourite festival highlight festival organizers festival site festival tent festival theme festival tour festival venue folk festival hold a festival international festival jazz festival literary festival major festival mark a festival organize a festival outdoor festival popular festival religious festival rock festival summer festival theatre festival village festival winter festival yearly festival
The festivals main focus has always been live music, but it also includes a film festival, a comedy festival, art components, and a digital interactive media conference.
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You've performed at comedy festivals around the world.
The Sun
Major cities now have annual comedy festivals and most music festivals have a comedy line-up running alongside.
The Sun
There are some comedy festivals that are barely festivals at all.
Times, Sunday Times
In recent years, however, the resort has been busy broadening its appeal - with music and comedy festivals in winter, and kite-flying, magic and stargazing in summer.
Times, Sunday Times
The small-print obligation to produce a cultural festival was never even mentioned.
Times, Sunday Times
But when we finally arrive at this crowded summer of 2012, how much coverage will a cultural festival be given?
Times, Sunday Times
The chiefs mentioned are directly involved in the cultural festival.
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It promotes academic, cultural and sports activities amongst the physically challenged and organizes an annual cultural festival.
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He comes back during the cultural festival to help the student council raise money.
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The biggest band on the planet have never played its most famous festival.
Times, Sunday Times
Sightings included one at the famous festival in 2003.
The Sun
Some famous festivals think they are being dangerously modern if they commission one new work a year.
Times, Sunday Times
Some towns boast glorious architecture, charming shops or famous festivals.
Times,Sunday Times
It took part in many famous festivals of music.
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She was also told that she could not be the festival director because she was not available all the time.
ST
Adès, a pianist, conductor and festival director as well as a composer, has become, at 36, a universal cynosure.
Times, Sunday Times
Staged opera has been more problematic for the past three decades: festival directors have had to be resourceful and stringent spenders.
Times, Sunday Times
The festival directors did not provide any further contact information.
Times, Sunday Times
Prior to the announcement of the winner, there will be reminders of the six shortlisted movies, as nominated by critics, academics and festival directors.
Times, Sunday Times
The newly packaged festival favourite smells of lemon, orange and passionflower.
The Sun
Not all their songs are standouts, but their savage live show has made them festival favourites and suggests a flourishing future.
Times, Sunday Times
Elbow have been festival favourites over the past few years.
The Sun
Melodies and rollicking choruses competed with adrenalin-fuelled guitars for a glorious racket, cementing them as festival favourites.
The Sun
I've seen three so far and, despite their brevity, each one has been a festival highlight.
Times, Sunday Times
What's been your festival highlight of the summer?
The Sun
We chatted briefly about his glorious reign over the world of cricket before we were interrupted to watch a video on the festival highlights.
ST
Other festival highlights include a debate on how the young are coping with anxiety and peer pressure on the web.
Times, Sunday Times
Each year the festival highlights performances from many different genres of music.
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Other sources, however, said festival organizers were quietly outraged.
Globe and Mail
But he won't be getting any help from festival organizers.
Globe and Mail
Festival organizers say they are bringing their fire preparedness up to code, installing fire breaks around the property and keeping 40,000 gallons of water on hand.
Globe and Mail
The festival organizers claim there are roughly 1,000,000 visitors annually.
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According to the festival organizers, about 58,000 visitors attended the 2008 festival.
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He was so proud he forgot to bring a waterproof to the wettest festival site in history ...
The Sun
She was occasionally seen stumbling around the secluded wooded area, on the fringe of the festival site.
Times, Sunday Times
My favourite moments this week have been sitting up here at the very top of the festival site, watching the sun go down.
Times, Sunday Times
And free tea and coffee mean a morning trip into the festival site for the first cuppa isn't necessary.
The Sun
After more monsoon-level showers, the main pedestrian thoroughfares into the festival site became perilous to negotiate.
Times, Sunday Times
Hopefully a night in a festival tent won't change her mind.
The Sun
As he started to play, heavy rain began to fall on the festival tent.
Times, Sunday Times
And the rapper has an unusual list of must-have items for his festival tent to get him through the party at the end of the month.
The Sun
The beautiful cricket grounds are still only five minutes away from the festival tents and worth a visit.
Times, Sunday Times
During these three months they learn to make local dresses, monastery decos, school uniforms, festival tents etc.
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They are planning a festival theme for the wedding, which will take place next summer, in their tenth year together.
Times, Sunday Times
Some have made a concession to the festival theme (a former minister wore double denim) but most are defiantly smart casual.
Times, Sunday Times
It contains many of the park's midway games, all with a festival theme.
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There are many variations on the festival theme.
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The workshops highlighted the festival themes in different ways.
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Often a festival tour has a specific subject.
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Culled from various performances throughout the previous year's festival tour, the album was released in different fashions throughout various markets.
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We go into universities and schools, work closely with policy groups, conduct targeted media campaigns, festival tours and speak with young mum groups.
The Sun
He has appeared in over 200 media features since 1998, including 13 films screened at mountain film festivals and festival tours.
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Please say which festival venue you would prefer.
The Sun
The semifinals took place in one of the big festival venues.
Times, Sunday Times
There's just the one app for both the festival venues - simply select which one you're going to be at first.
The Sun
Every sector - galleries, museums, theatres, dance spaces, literature centres, music and festival venues - now knows it forms part of this creative enterprise.
Times, Sunday Times
In the 1970s, a number of fans began travelling to see the band in as many shows or festival venues as they could.
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They would go to the carnival together and he's now the patron of our annual folk festival.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Why was a rock band at a folk festival?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
There is also an annual folk festival.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Each time someone was imprisoned they would hold a festival of music, football and basketball outside the jail.
Times, Sunday Times
Not drive a tractor, not maintain a fence, not hold a festival.
Times, Sunday Times
Let's hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise.
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Most film schools will hold a festival, or showcase, of student works at the end of a semester or school year.
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They hold a festival every year and home-made baskets are displayed in front of houses.
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Apparently, 51 per cent of the nation's youth are 'not that bothered' or 'don't care at all' about next year's international festival of sport.
Times, Sunday Times
Modern and classicial music and drama are performed in the theatre every summer as part of an international festival.
Times, Sunday Times
The international festival of hip-hop dance-theatre combines stage performances with participatory fun.
Times, Sunday Times
Not good enough for a top international festival.
Times, Sunday Times
Culturally, this great city and its ambitious international festival ought biennially to feel like the centre of the universe.
Times, Sunday Times
There are two distinct strategies for towns hosting a jazz festival.
Times, Sunday Times
Should a bluegrass singer be part of a jazz festival?
Times, Sunday Times
A jazz festival there was also cancelled.
The Sun
Locals can't get enough of her - even after her shambolic performance at the island's jazz festival.
The Sun
Some new, some traditional and all worth catching, starting with the jazz festival next week.
Times, Sunday Times
So what better reason for a literary festival than bringing the glitterati of both nations together?
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Today the town hosts notable music and literary festivals and a major horseracing festival.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Its annual literary festival is also renowned.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It's not absolutely necessary to eat local seafood or gourmet risotto at a literary festival, but it is fun to be able to.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It must be a great feeling for you to host a stage at a major festival in your hometown?
The Sun
But no comeback would be complete without an appearance at a major festival in the bag.
The Sun
They should have risen become a major festival band by the summer.
The Sun
During the colonial period, this was the scene of a major festival in the capital.
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The band makes at least one trip each spring to perform at a major festival.
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To mark the festival, the people sought out the wild cat, as had been prescribed.
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Community bonfires, folk songs and dancing, mark the festival.
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The events that mark the festival include traditional and folk music shows folk dances, martial arts, classical music and dance performances, street plays, drama / theater, etc.
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Disarmingly, he admits that he intended the book to mark the festival's first quarter-century, but missed his deadline by eight years.
Times, Sunday Times
Workshops, performances and flashmobs will be held all over the capital to mark the festival's final weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
But afterwards the endeavor by the club members helped the club to organize the festival regularly.
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A year-round staff of about 10 people plan and organize the festival each year and get help from nearly 200 volunteers during the week of the event.
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In 1951, he thought about organizing a festival built around a chamber orchestra.
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The association organized the festival from the first season in 1988 which included 19 concerts until 1992.
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Soon after this, in 1980, the town hall took the responsibility of organizing the festival.
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You suddenly have a new outdoor festival spread over three weekends and featuring some of the biggest names in classical music.
Times, Sunday Times
The outdoor festival celebrates the arts with a wide array of performances, exhibits, demonstrations, and hands-on activities.
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You're performing at several outdoor festivals this summer.
The Sun
You'd have needed a boat to go to any of this summer's outdoor festivals.
The Sun
There are hundreds of outdoor festivals and events every year, and enough decent bars and restaurants to justify the cost of a babysitter.
Times, Sunday Times
They're just the kind of rock deities who should be playing at the most popular festival on the planet.
The Sun
Superstitions like the presence of a werewolf and a headless mule are also manifested in this popular festival.
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Most of these musical styles are also be played by wind ensembles of varying sizes at popular festivals around the country.
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Television stations often profile successful businesses and popular festivals that attract hundreds of thousands of people, bringing national attention to the area.
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Over the years it has developed into one of this countrys most popular festivals of its kind.
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Religious festivals that had previously been frowned on were regularly observed in the cathedral.
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Religious festivals and a lively music school keep the town alive but the population has shrunk from 8,000 about 80 years ago to barely 3,800.
Times,Sunday Times
They are worshiped in churches (where they appear as saints) and in religious festivals, where they appear as the deities.
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Religious festivals even in the smallest towns have fireworks, which can include images of the patron saint on a frame outlined in pyrotechnics.
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Indigenous and folk dances in the state are most often associated with rituals and religious festivals.
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Yes, the average rock festival has a lot to answer for.
The Sun (2015)
It's a film about a famous rock festival in which music takes second billing.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It shows that classical music can be as wild, stomping, noisy and uninhibited as anything you will hear at a rock festival.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Despite numerous quirky characters there are only a few mild giggles in this story about one young man's role in the legendary 1969 rock festival.
The Sun (2009)
Result: no celebrities, no old people: just how a proper rock festival should be.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The new album comes over like a deliberate primer for summer festival action - low on subtlety, but taut and high octane.
The Sun
Negotiations have begun to give the country a summer festival of celebration lasting three months.
Times, Sunday Times
Next season's snugly folk-style capes, jackets and jumpers look great worn over summer festival outfits for some much-needed warmth.
The Sun
It has grown from a showcase of national talent to a three-month summer festival, with some of the world's best musicians and conductors.
The Sun
He also lets it out for the summer festival season, which makes another 2,500.
Times, Sunday Times
Who would have thought a decade ago that this international hip-hop dance theatre festival would have, as they say in showbusiness, such legs?
Times, Sunday Times
The city's international theatre festival brings together 22 performances from 11 countries over five nights.
Times, Sunday Times
Liturgies could consist, for instance, of the maintenance of a trireme, a chorus during a theatre festival, or a gymnasium.
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The theatre festival attracts an annual audience of over 5,000 people.
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In 2011, it will be hosting the fourth annual theatre festival.
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A display of colourful fireworks, ends the village festival.
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Every other year, the local clubs and the political establishment stage a village festival.
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Once, at a village festival, he astonished everyone by playing the viol beautifully.
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He undertakes running the village festival completely by himself to earn a big name.
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I have been lucky enough to stumble across village festivals in full swing.
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Meanwhile, here at home, the wretched politically correct talk of the 'winter festival' for fear of causing offence.
The Sun
These screenings have either been encore presentations or in advance of the winter festival or summer film series.
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Winter festivals focus on ice sculptures, skiing and skating.
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In some cases, participants in winter festivals will build large numbers of snowmen.
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There are many winter festivals.
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This yearly festival has featured bands of many different genres.
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The yearly festival shows a wide variety of horror, fantasy and science fiction genre films including shorts, features and animated films.
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While no such gifts came, the town has continued to perform the dance as part of the town's yearly festival.
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In fact, the region holds a yearly festival dedicated to this simple-looking treat.
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The solution was a yearly festival of university choirs.
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Translations:
Chinese: 节日
Japanese: フェスティバル
- convalescent
- convalescent home
- convection
- convection current
- convection heater
- convector heater
- convene
- convene a meeting
- convener
- convener
- convenience
- convenience
- convenience food
- convenience meal
- convenience shopping
- convenience store
- convenient
- convenient access to
- convenient alternative
- convenient cover
- convenient excuse
- convenient fiction
- convenient form
- convenient location
- conveniently