movable feast

English

Alternative forms

• moveable feast

Noun

movable feast (plural movable feasts)

1. A day of note, frequently a Christian festival, whose date changes from year to year according to a set of rules.
   • 2015, James W. Ermatinger, The World of Ancient Rome, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 317:

     The Sementivae was a movable feast in January for the spring sowing with offerings made to Tellus and Ceres, agricultural deities.

Antonyms

• fixed feast
• immovable feast

Hyponyms

• Ash Wednesday
• Ascension
• Corpus Christi
• Easter

Translations

a day of note

• Dutch: roerende feestdag m
• Finnish: liikkuva juhla
• German: beweglicher Feiertag m
• Polish: święto ruchome (pl) n
• Russian: переходящий пра́здник m (perexodjaščij prázdnik), подви́жный пра́здник m (podvížnyj prázdnik)
• Spanish: fiesta movible

Further reading

• moveable feast on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “movable feast”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.