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feria

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: feria

1
n
a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated
2
n
(in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: feria
1

n a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated

“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”
Type of:
weekday
any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday)
2

n (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint

Type of:
celebration, festivity
any joyous diversion
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