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FERIA
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Irregular inflected form: feriae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("feria" is a kind of...):
celebration; festivity (any joyous diversion)
Domain category:
Spanish (the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated
Example:
in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so 'secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("feria" is a kind of...):
weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))
Derivation:
ferial (of or relating to or being a feria)
