Meanings
present singular third person festivalizes · participle present festivalizing · participle past festivalized · past festivalized
- transitiveTo make into, or like, a festival.
The sharp edges of this, the bits that people notice, tend to be in spaces that we understand instinctively as belonging to all of us: parks and commons, which are increasingly “festivalised” – gated off for ticket holders.
2023 September 19, Zoe Williams, “Corporation creep: why London’s Bond Street became Burberry Street - and caused outrage”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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festivalize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/festivalize
“festivalize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/festivalize. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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