Festival
A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or Eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern.
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- nounAn event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
- nounIn mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.
- adjectivePertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
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