<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a day or time of religious or other celebration, marked by feasting, ceremonies, or other observances: the festival of Christmas; a Roman festival.</li><li>a periodic commemoration, anniversary, or celebration: an annual strawberry festival.</li><li>a period or program of festive activities, cultural events, or entertainment: a music festival.</li><li>gaiety; revelry; merrymaking.</li><li>Roman Catholic Church: an appointed year or other period, ordinarily every 25 years ordinary jubilee, in which a plenary indulgence is granted upon repentance and the performance of certain religious acts.</li><li>a period of time extraordinary jubilee declared by the pope as a time of rejoicing, as for an anniversary, when a plenary indulgence is granted upon repentance and the performance of certain religious acts.</li><li>the plenary indulgence granted during such a period.</li><li>Chiefly Biblical: a yearlong period to be observed by Jews once every 50 years, during which Jewish slaves were to be freed, alienated lands were to be restored to the original owner or an heir, the fields were to be left untilled, and all agricultural labors were to be suspended.</li><li>a Black American folk song concerned with future happiness or deliverance from tribulation.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>festal: a festival atmosphere of unrestrained joy.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>