Synonyms of the word

festival

• adj. Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.).
• n. An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes…
• n. In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

celebration

• n. The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament.
• n. The observance of a holiday or feast day, as by solemnities.
• n. The act, process of showing appreciation, gratitude and/or remembrance, notably as a social event.
• n. A social gathering for entertainment and fun; a party.

festivity

• n. (often pluralized) A festival or similar celebration.
• n. An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.

fete

• n. A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
• n. A feast, celebration or carnival.
• v. (transitive, usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.