feast

A large, special meal with plenty of food, often eaten to celebrate something.

• We prepared a feast.
• The wedding feast lasted for hours.
• They invited the whole village to their feast.

Similar words: banquet

Common phrases: wedding feast, prepare a feast, enjoy a feast

Something that gives you a lot of pleasure, especially through what you see or hear.

• The exhibition was a visual feast.
• That concert offered a feast for the ears.
• The bright costumes made the show a feast for the eyes.

How to use it: a feast for something (The garden was a feast for the eyes.)

Similar words: delight, treat

Common phrases: visual feast, musical feast, feast for everyone

To eat a large amount of good food, often at a celebration.

• We feasted together all evening.
• The guests feasted on roast chicken.
• They had feasted well before the dancing began.

How to use it: feast on something (We feasted on fresh fish and bread.)

Similar words: dine, banquet

Opposites: fast

Common phrases: feast on something, feast together

To honour someone by giving them a large, special meal.

• The king feasted his guests.
• The town feasted the returning soldiers.
• Their hosts feasted them in the great hall.

Similar words: entertain, banquet

Common phrases: feast the guests, feast the victors