Meanings
nounmovable feast (plural movable feasts)
plural movable feasts · alternative moveable feast
- A day of note, frequently a Christian festival, whose date changes from year to year according to a set of rules.
The Sementivae was a movable feast in January for the spring sowing with offerings made to Tellus and Ceres, agricultural deities.
2015, James W. Ermatinger, The World of Ancient Rome, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 317
Synonyms & antonyms
Opposite
fixed feastimmovable feast
nouna religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years
Similar
Broader
feast dayfete day
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Dutch roerende feestdag
- roerende feestdaga day of note
Finnish liikkuva juhla
- liikkuva juhlaa day of note
German beweglicher Feiertag
- beweglicher Feiertaga day of note
Hungarian mozgó ünnep
- mozgó ünnepa day of note
Polish święto ruchome
- święto ruchomea day of note
Russian переходящий пра́здник, подви́жный пра́здник
- переходящий пра́здник (perexodjaščij prázdnik)a day of note
- подви́жный пра́здник (podvížnyj prázdnik)a day of note
Spanish fiesta movible
- fiesta moviblea day of note
Cite this entry
APA
movable feast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/movable%20feast
MLA
“movable feast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/movable%20feast. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “movable feast,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/movable%20feast.
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