songfest

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noun

An event, often informal, where people sing together for the pleasure of it.

OriginEnglish fest ← German Fest ← Middle High German fëst →
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Meanings

nounsongfest (plural songfests)

plural songfests

  1. An event, often informal, where people sing together for the pleasure of it.

    The routine business took an hour; for another hour the shareholders and proxies and company officers held a Yoyodyne songfest.

    1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 59

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sengʷʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*séngʷʰ-e-ti
  3. Proto-Germanic*singwaną
  4. Proto-Germanic*sangwaz
  5. Proto-West Germanic*sangu
  6. Old Englishsang
  7. Middle Englishsong
  8. Englishsong
  9. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁s
  11. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁stos
  12. Proto-Italic*θēstos
  13. Proto-Italic*fēstos
  14. Latinfēstus
  15. Latinfestum
  16. Middle High Germanfëst
  17. GermanFest
  18. Englishfest
  19. Englishsongfest

From song + -fest.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

snogfest
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APA

songfest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/songfest

MLA

“songfest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/songfest. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “songfest,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/songfest.

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