Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A festival or feast.
- n. An elaborate, often outdoor entertainment.
- n. An elaborate party.
- v. To celebrate or honor with a festival, a feast, or an elaborate entertainment.
- v. To pay honor to.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
- n. A feast, celebration or carnival.
- v. transitive To celebrate (a person).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A feat.
- n. obsolete Feet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an elaborate party (often outdoors)
- n. an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)
- v. have a celebration
Etymologies
- From French fête (Wiktionary)
- French fête, from Old French feste; see feast. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Alain and Enguerrand were ushered up the grand staircase, lined with tiers of costly exotics as if for a fete; but in that and in all kinds of female luxury, the Duchesse lived in a state of _fete perpetuelle_.”
“The fete is Oscar-like, with a daunting line of photographers and smartphone-waving bloggers and fans.”
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“In a “Spoonful of Poison” a village fete is wrecked by someone lacing the jam with LSD in a competition at the fete.”
“And she called the fete of the Rosiere a root of bitterness!" exclaimed”
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“However the fete is dampened by the apparent suicide of Jack’s friend Tim Preston.”
“The preparations for this event required over a month, and it was called the fete of the camellias.”
“After a moment, he asked, “So your underlying purpose is to use the ball to bolster attendance at the fete, especially with those down from London, which in turn will greatly increase local interest, thus ensuring the fete is a resounding success?””
“At the time of this fete, that is to say, in the middle of the month of”
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“I want it all over before our fete, which is day after to-morrow.”
“Well, never mind, "she brightened suddenly;" the fete will be a little excitement.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fete’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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allover
reintegrate, spight, surveillant, harmonize, Colophon, workplace, bigoted, unsighted, bridgework, salutation, voltmeter, octane and 159 more...
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crosswords
yen, emend, fete, gest, orlop, latria, ensilage, aria, wend, ilk, fen, espy and 9 more...
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aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1856 more...
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sirsmoove's list
doppelganger, perspicacity, dervish, facetious, jocular, waggish, enervated, hustings, yawn, pandiculation, gravitas, fete and 2 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Faves
nepenthe, cupidity, anodyne, obdurate, doleful, obsolescent, quale, piquant, velleity, inchoate, disport, facile and 366 more...
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Bébé to Zeze
A more narrow version of *e?e by pterodactyl, this one is ?e?e.
nese, were, rete, tele, sene, deme, dere, meme, rese, here, jefe, rede and 131 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (F)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
faery, fairy cross, fairy ring, falcon, fare-thee-well, farewell-summer, farthing, faun, fawn, felicitous, felicity, fencing and 109 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
rakish, excursionist, bowelless, pilgrimizing, melodeon, woebegone, abaft, sextant, veriest, behindhand, stanchion, avast and 188 more...
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annscann's list
My words, generally
bavarois, bawbee, bawd, bawdry, libertine, russophobe, rubicund, gossamer, persnickety, claptrap, gesticulate, schadenfreudian and 199 more...
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