forefeast

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noun

A lesser religious festival that leads up to another more significant festival.

Opposite
afterfeastpostfeast
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Meanings

nounforefeast (plural forefeasts)

plural forefeasts

  1. A lesser religious festival that leads up to another more significant festival.

    The two forefeasts of Christmas fall on the previous Sundays […]

    2005, George Dion Dragas, Ecclesiasticus II: Orthodox Icons, Saints, Feasts and Prayer
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    The typikon of the Evergetis monastery, on the other hand, lists a forefeast and two afterfeasts; […]

    2016, Leslie Brubaker, Mary B. Cunningham, The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images

    Liturgical ceremonies of special splendor were enacted not only on feast days but also on the forefeasts and afterfeasts of these events, as seen in the Book of Ceremonies and Typikon of the Great Church.

    2016, Carolyn L. Connor, Saints and Spectacle, page 144

    Antonyms: afterfeast, postfeast

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA lesser religious festival that leads up to another more significant festival.

Opposite
afterfeastpostfeast

Origin

From fore- + feast.

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APA

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

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

Chicago

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

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