fete
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- The noun derives from French fête. Doublet of feast, fiesta, and fest.
- The verb derives from French fêter.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: fāt, fet; IPA(key): /feɪt/, /fɛt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Homophone: fate
- Rhymes: -eɪt, -ɛt
Noun
[edit]fete (plural fetes)
- A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
- 1991, Treasure Hunting, Treasure Hunting Publications:
- The final fete of the year was held at the Plymouth Hoe on 20 July, where fine weather and crowds of people ensured much support for local charities and boosted club finds.
- 1991, Treasure Hunting, Treasure Hunting Publications:
- A feast, celebration or carnival.
Translations
[edit]A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
Verb
[edit]fete (third-person singular simple present fetes, present participle feting, simple past and past participle feted)
- (transitive, usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person).
- Synonym: celebrate
- 1992, Today, News Group Newspapers Ltd:
- Danielle Salamon was also four when she was feted as a musical genius in 1953.
- 2007 April 6, Mike Barnes, “Is this the hardest-working man in music?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Saxophonist Pete Wareham, his friend and collaborator in Polar Bear and the critically feted groups Acoustic Ladyland and Fulborn Teversham, soon punctures that idea.
- 2016 April 9, Philip Oltermann, quoting Michael Hofmann, “Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- In another LRB review, he had written after reading Martin Amis’s latest, elsewhere feted as a glorious return to form: “I read The Zone of Interest straight through twice from beginning to end and it feels like I’ve read nothing at all.”
- 2018 April 27, William Cook, “Are Macron and Merkel playing good cop, bad cop with Trump?”, in The Spectator:
- For three days Emmanuel Macron was wooed and fêted by Donald Trump, treated to marching bands and banquets.
Translations
[edit]to celebrate or make much of a person
Anagrams
[edit]Arammba
[edit]Numeral
[edit]feté
- 36; 6^2
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fēte
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fete
Romanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fete f pl
Swedish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fete
West Makian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly from an older fote (if not an error), recorded in van der Crab's De Moluksche Eilanden's wordlist. Cognate with Ternate hate (“tree”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fete
- tree
- iso fete ― he climbs down a tree
References
[edit]- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[3], Pacific linguistics
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