| NOUN | time | feria | a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated |
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| act | feria | (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint |
| Sounds | feh'riyah | |
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| Rhymes | Abyssinia ... zinnia: 217 rhymes with iyah... | |
| Meaning | A weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated. | |
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| 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" | |
| Broader | weekday | Any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday) |
| Adjectives | ferial | of or relating to or being a feria |
| Meaning | (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint. | |
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| Category | Spanish | The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain |
| Broader | celebration, festivity | Any joyous diversion |
| Spanish | fiesta, fiesta patronal | |
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