FEASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feasting mean? 

• FEASTING (noun)
  The noun FEASTING has 1 sense:

1. eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)

  Familiarity information: FEASTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEASTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

banqueting; feasting

Hypernyms ("feasting" is a kind of...):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

Derivation:

feast (partake in a feast or banquet)

 Context examples 

Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The peasant listened, and when he heard them talk about feasting he was vexed that he had been forced to make shift with a slice of bread and cheese.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They kept this day as a holiday, then and ever after, and spent the time in feasting and dancing.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He was feasting his love of beauty at this table where eating was an aesthetic function.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he went his way, and in the evening came to the village where the two inns were; and in one of these were people singing, and dancing, and feasting; but the other looked very dirty, and poor.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)