festival
Portuguese, noun/fes.t͡ʃiˈvaw/
festival is spelled F-E-S-T-I-V-A-L (8 letters) and appears 81 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,196th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Festival is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “festival” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “grande festa”.
What does festival mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefestival
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. o mesmo que festivo
noun: 1. grande festa 2. cortejo cívico
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of festival
- festivais plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce festival?
- Brazil /fes.t͡ʃiˈvaw/
- Brazil [fes.t͡ʃiˈvaʊ̯]
- Portugal /fɨʃ.ti.ˈvaɫ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to festival
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is festival in Portuguese?
festival appears 81 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).