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festivities[plural] theparties,meals, and othersocialactivitieswith whichpeoplecelebrateaspecialoccasion: 庆祝活动Come in andjointhefestivities!进来参加庆祝活动吧！ [U]asituationin whichpeoplearehappyandcelebrating 欢庆；欢乐 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesCelebrations, parties & special occasions - a night on the townidiom
- afterparty
- April Fool's Day
- baby shower
- bachelor party
- backslapping
- dinner
- dinner dance
- Easter egg hunt
- fayre
- feast
- masquerade
- mela
- Mother's Day
- New Year's Eve
- trick-or-treating
- Valentine's Day
- wassail
- wassailer
- wassailing
See more results » Examplesoffestivityfestivity The festivities lasted four days and were attended by the royal embassy and various nobles and prelates from near and far.From theCambridge English Corpus While the theatre was to be the bastion of progress, traditional popular festivities such as carnival with its subversive potential for social inversion, were curbed.From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps more importantly, however, people walking from the square to the tower gate could view festivities taking place in the great hall.From theCambridge English Corpus Gone were the regimental marching bands, displays with flags, cavalry formations, carriages of notables, festivities for the monarch's birthday and for royal visits.From theCambridge English Corpus Appropriate departure festivities were arranged, and several thousand individuals were reported to have attended them.From theCambridge English Corpus Effectively the site, surrounded by vast 'reopened' space, became the focal point for spontaneous gathering and festivities.From theCambridge English Corpus The scenarios of the festivities grew more elaborate over the years, involving performances created specifically for the occasion.From theCambridge English Corpus The town's newspapers had been abuzz with details of the plans and preparations for the celebration in the months leading up to the festivities.From theCambridge English Corpus The festivities from the street swell into the open doors and soon what used to be a line of circulation becomes a bellyful.From theCambridge English Corpus In doing so, the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of the festivities, and the cultural traditions and political intricacies surrounding them are graphically recreated.From theCambridge English Corpus Another aspect that constantly appeared in festivities was light, manifested in a great variety of forms like torches, bon®res and ®reworks.From theCambridge English Corpus The fair, which was widely advertised in the surrounding parishes, involved two days of festivities including cricket, dandy horse races, a climbing pole, and races for men, women and children.From theCambridge English Corpus In many cases, these festivities were the expression of the town's feelings with regard to national events, like great military victories or births and marriages inside the royal family.From theCambridge English Corpus The greatest share of mobile communication represents calls to immediate relatives, and relates to common plans and festivities, or simply assures the communication partners of their mutual attachment.From theCambridge English Corpus To its own, the parish could be generous enough : the rogationtide festivities of 1746, bringing the parish together in an atmosphere of carnival and celebration, cost £6 10s.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |