"Feast of Fools" meaning in English

See Feast of Fools in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Feasts of Fools [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|Feasts of Fools|head=Feast of Fools}} Feast of Fools (plural Feasts of Fools)
  1. (historical, in medieval Europe) A festival, based on the Roman Saturnalia, celebrated near Christmas. Wikipedia link: Feast of Fools Tags: historical Categories (topical): Holidays Synonyms: Feast of Asses

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Feast of Fools meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Feasts of Fools",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Feasts of Fools",
        "head": "Feast of Fools"
      },
      "expansion": "Feast of Fools (plural Feasts of Fools)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Holidays",
          "orig": "en:Holidays",
          "parents": [
            "Observances",
            "Calendar",
            "Timekeeping",
            "Time",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A festival, based on the Roman Saturnalia, celebrated near Christmas."
      ],
      "id": "en-Feast_of_Fools-en-noun-OdE6KkL~",
      "links": [
        [
          "festival",
          "festival"
        ],
        [
          "Roman",
          "Roman"
        ],
        [
          "Saturnalia",
          "Saturnalia"
        ],
        [
          "Christmas",
          "Christmas"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, in medieval Europe) A festival, based on the Roman Saturnalia, celebrated near Christmas."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in medieval Europe"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Feast of Asses"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Feast of Fools"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Feast of Fools"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Feasts of Fools",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Feasts of Fools",
        "head": "Feast of Fools"
      },
      "expansion": "Feast of Fools (plural Feasts of Fools)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Holidays"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A festival, based on the Roman Saturnalia, celebrated near Christmas."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "festival",
          "festival"
        ],
        [
          "Roman",
          "Roman"
        ],
        [
          "Saturnalia",
          "Saturnalia"
        ],
        [
          "Christmas",
          "Christmas"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, in medieval Europe) A festival, based on the Roman Saturnalia, celebrated near Christmas."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in medieval Europe"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Feast of Asses"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Feast of Fools"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Feast of Fools"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.