## Meanings
1. A large, special meal, often to celebrate something.
2. To eat a large amount of good food with great enjoyment.
3. A religious festival or holiday.

## Examples
- We had a huge feast to celebrate the harvest.
- They feasted on roast turkey and all the trimmings.
- The town holds a procession on the feast of its patron saint.

## Derived Forms
- afterfeast
- bean-feast
- beanfeast
- birthfeast
- feaster
- feastful
- feasting
- feastless
- feastlike
- feastly
- feastware
- feasty

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *dʰeh₁-
- Root: feeste
- Root: feste
- Root: festa
- Root: festum
- Root: *fēs-tos
- Root: *dʰéh₁s

## Etymology
From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate.

## AI Etymology
Feast comes from Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate. In current use, the main senses are “A large, special meal, often to celebrate something” and “To eat a large amount of good food with great enjoyment”.

## Topics
- Food & Drink
- Entertainment & Leisure

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