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Spell Bee Word: Feast


Basic Details

Word: Feast

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: To eat a big, special meal with lots of good food, usually to celebrate. As a noun, a feast is that meal.

Synonyms: dine

Antonyms: starve, fast

How to Spell Feast

Syllables: feast

Tricky part: The ee sound is spelt ea, as in eat and beast. Children often write feest.

Watch out for: feest, fiest, feasst

Memory tip: Feast is f + east. Picture a long table set for a feast, facing east as the sun comes up.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. a feast for the eyes: something very beautiful to look at Example: "The flower show at Lalbagh was a feast for the eyes."

Usage Examples

Example 1: We feasted on biryani and kheer at the wedding.

Example 2: On Eid, families feast together after the morning prayers.

Example 3: The monkeys feasted on ripe guavas in our garden.

Fun Fact

Feast and festival come from the same Latin word, festum, which meant a holiday or celebration.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

feast

a) dine
b) starve
c) eat
d) celebrate

Show answer

b) starve. To starve is to have no food at all, far from a feast.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

After the puja, the whole family sat down to feest on puris and halwa.

a) feest
b) After
c) family
d) down

Show answer

a) feest. Feast uses ea, the same pair as in eat.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) festivel
b) banquit
c) feast
d) selebrate

Show answer

c) feast. Feast is f followed by east; festivel, selebrate and banquit are all misspelt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do people usually have a feast?

a) at a festival or wedding
b) while they sleep
c) when they are ill
d) during a test

Show answer

a) at a festival or wedding

2. If a garden is 'a feast for the eyes', it is ____.

a) dark
b) full of food
c) very beautiful
d) very small

Show answer

c) very beautiful

Associated Words

hunterreversemelancholydaydreamwink
authorkneadornamentbinocularhilarious

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