fête

Unadapted borrowing from French fête.

• IPA^(key): /feɪt/, /fɛt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt, -ɛt

fête (plural fêtes)

1. Alternative spelling of fete.
   • 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Stratford-on-Avon”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VII, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 62:

     The sexton and his companion had been employed as carpenters on the preparations for the celebrated Stratford Jubilee; and they remembered Garrick, the prime mover of the fête, who superintended the arrangements; […]

fête (third-person singular simple present fêtes, present participle fêting, simple past and past participle fêted)

1. Alternative spelling of fete.
   • 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     This is not, of course, to say that the British — or even the Americans — are positively popular or fêted here.

• ETFE, feet, teef

Inherited from Middle French feste, from Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

• (France) IPA^(key): /fɛt/

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  • (France) Homophones: fait, faite, faîte, faites, faîtes, fêtes, fêtent
• IPA^(key): /fɛːt/ (older, now chiefly Belgium and Canada)

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  • Audio (Quebec, Abitibi, informal); [fɑɪ̯tʰ]:

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  • Audio (Quebec, Ottawa, informal); [faɪ̯tʰ]:

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  • (Quebec) Homophones: faîte, faîtes, fêtes, fêtent

fête f (plural fêtes)

1. winter holidays (always in plural)

   Tu fais quoi pour les fêtes (de fin d'année)? ― What will you do for the (winter) holidays? (literally, “the end-of-year holidays”)

2. party

   Synonyms: teuf, partie, nouba

   Je fais une fête chez moi ce soir! ― I'm throwing a party at my place tonight! (literally, “I'm doing a party”)

3. (Christianity) name day

   Le 18 mai, c'est la fête des Éric. ― May 18 is the name day of people named Eric.

4. (North America) birthday

   Bonne fête! ― Happy birthday!

• → English: fête
• → German: Fete
• → Polish: feta

fête

1. inflection of fêter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “fête”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French feste, from Late Latin fēsta, from the plural of Latin fēstum.

• (Jersey) IPA^(key): /feit/

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fête f (plural fêtes)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) holiday