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Etymology

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festival +‎ -ize

Verb

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festivalize (third-person singular simple present festivalizes, present participle festivalizing, simple past and past participle festivalized)

  1. (transitive) To make into, or like, a festival.
    • 2023 September 19, Zoe Williams, “Corporation creep: why London’s Bond Street became Burberry Street - and caused outrage”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      The sharp edges of this, the bits that people notice, tend to be in spaces that we understand instinctively as belonging to all of us: parks and commons, which are increasingly “festivalised” – gated off for ticket holders.