feria
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
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
Types & categories
- weekday hypernym
Related & opposite
- ferial derivation
Sense 2 noun
(in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
Types & categories
- festivity hypernym
Related & opposite
- Spanish domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | ferial |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | weekday |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | Spanish |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | festivity |