Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
fester . - noun One who feasts, or who gives a feast or an entertainment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who fares deliciously.
- noun One who entertains magnificently.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
feasts , who attends a feast.
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Examples
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She's got all the good accounts in town: McBride's Super Market, where she composes rhymed couplets for the flyers and paper shopping bags Looking for something to eat on Easter—Our ham and lamb will make a feaster!
My Poetic Nemesis Con Chapman 2011
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Klakee-Nah was an anachronism -- a mediaeval ruin, a fighter and a feaster, happy with wine and song.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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Tui Tulifau was a merry soul, a great feaster and drinker.
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This Living Dead Girl is no brainless zombie intent only on brains, she is a thinking, rationale being with a strong sense of right and wrong who just happens to be back from the dead…and is a very messy blood-feaster.
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And who wants goat when they sit down at a family feaster?
Patrick Sauer: Donald Rumsfeld Remixes Christian Hymns for George W. Bush 2009
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For if thou well considre my trade, thou shalt fynd, that I haue not only brought thee other mennes olde store, but opened thee also the treasury of myne owne witte and bokes, not euery where to be found, and like a liberall feaster haue set before thee much of myne owne, and many thynges newe.
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It was heavy with golden berries, and Oomark was not the only feaster.
Dread Companion Norton, Andre 1970
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But the presence of the feather-clad feaster was in a way a promise of security along this road.
Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959
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An exception, one of three such, was the feaster on Raf's left.
Star Born Andre Norton 1958
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An exception, one of three such, was the feaster on Raf's left.
Star Born Norton, Andre 1957
oroboros commented on the word feaster
fEAsTER
April 22, 2008
sionnach commented on the word feaster
Note that this word also belongs on the second Kangaroo list, as it also contains the joantonym faster.
April 25, 2008