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How to spell feast

hear itfeast/fist/nounLong vowels

What it means: A large meal, often for a celebration.

In a sentence: We had a big feast at the party with lots of yummy food.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as feest or fiest.

Same family: feasts, feasted, feasting, banquet, celebration. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Feast comes from Old French 'feste' and Latin 'festum,' meaning a festival or holiday. It originally referred to a religious or public celebration before it became strongly associated with large, special meals.

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