Event and Festival

Event

Event noun - Something that happens.

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Festival and event are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Festival" instead a noun "Event".

Nearby Words: eventual, eventful, eventuality, eventless

Festival noun - A time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something.

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Event and festival are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Event" instead a noun "Festival".

Nearby Words: festivity, festive, festively

live	live event	live festival
notable	notable event	notable festival
complete	complete event	complete festival
small	small event	small festival
Other adjectives: actual, entire, massive, large, big, huge, famous, new, major, final, titular, next, last, latter, yearly, previous, annual, upcoming, historical, biggest.

The characters prepare for some sort of festival or event (usually New Year, Tanabata or a summer festival), requiring them to dress in gorgeous traditional clothing The characters are forced to go to Kyoto and/or go back in time to Edo-era Kyoto, complete with gratuitous Scenery Porn.

Source: Franchise / Super Sentai
The event, which was created in 2013 as a sister festival to the Belgian music festival Tomorrowland but held in America, started off swimmingly.

Source: Horrible / Music
Farmville 2 had an event that was obviously a wine-tasting festival, but it was insistently referred to as a "berry juice" festival, even though most of the berries involved were grapes.

Source: Frothy Mugs of Water

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