festivalize

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verb

To make into, or like, a festival.

Scrabble 26

Meanings

verbfestivalize (third-person singular simple present festivalizes, present participle festivalizing, simple past and past participle festivalized)

present singular third person festivalizes · participle present festivalizing · participle past festivalized · past festivalized

  1. 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

Origin

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APA

festivalize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/festivalize

MLA

“festivalize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/festivalize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “festivalize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/festivalize.

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