fete day

1. A day designated for feasting (synset 115186678)
   is a type of: holiday - a day on which work is suspended by law or custom
   subtypes:

   • jewish new year, rosh hashana, rosh hashanah, rosh hashona, rosh hashonah - (Judaism) a solemn Jewish feast day celebrated on the 1st or 1st and 2nd of Tishri; noted for the blowing of the shofar
   • movable feast, moveable feast - a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years
   • circumcision, feast of the circumcision, january 1 - (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st
   • christmas, christmas day, dec 25, xmas - a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
   • thanksgiving, thanksgiving day - fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag
   • id al-fitr - a Muslim day of feasting at the end of Ramadan
   • feast of sacrifice, id al-adha - the 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity
   is a part of: church festival, religious festival - a festival having religious significance
   same as: feast day

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