📖 F — The English dictionary · page 13

fester — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To go bad and fill with pus, as an infected wound does.↗ Example: My wounds are noisome, they fester, because of my foolishness.↗ (Writings PSA.38.6, JPS 1917)↗

festering — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Going bad and full of pus, as an infected wound.↗ Example: From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and festering sores: they have not been pressed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.↗ (Prophets ISA.1.6, JPS 1917)↗

festival — Everyday, meaning 1: A special day or time when people celebrate something, often with traditions, food, music or religious ceremonies, like Diwali, Eid or Hanukkah.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An organised event with lots of performances or activities, like a music festival, a book festival or a film festival.↗ Example: Diwali is a festival of lights.↗ · Our town has a music festival every summer.↗ · At the harvest festival we brought food for the food bank.↗ · Eid is a happy festival at the end of Ramadan.↗ · Lunar New Year is celebrated with dragons and red envelopes.↗ · We went to a book festival and met an author.↗ · If you get lost at the festival, go to the meeting point.↗ · Matariki is a festival in New Zealand that marks the Māori New Year.↗ · This festival was celebrated in honour of Ceres.↗ · The LORD is God, and hath given us light; order the festival procession with boughs, even unto the horns of the altar.↗ (Writings PSA.118.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And they went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod the grapes, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.↗ (Prophets JDG.9.27, JPS 1917)↗

festive — Everyday, meaning 1: Festive means happy and cheerful, like a party or celebration.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Connected with a holiday or festival, especially Christmas: «the festive season».↗ Example: The hall looked festive with lights and balloons.↗ · We sang songs in a festive mood.↗ · The festive season is a busy time for shops.↗ · Mum made a festive pudding.↗ · Everyone wore festive jumpers to school.↗ · The town square was full of festive stalls.↗ · Many festive evenings were spent on board.↗

festivity — Everyday, meaning 1: Festivities (usually plural) are the parties, music, food and fun events held to celebrate something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Festivity (uncountable) is the happy, joyful feeling of a celebration.↗ Example: The town's Christmas festivities started with a lantern parade.↗ · We joined in the Diwali festivities at school.↗ · There was an air of festivity in the street.↗ · The wedding festivities lasted all day.↗ · After the festivities, we helped clean up.↗ · New Year's Eve festivities ended with fireworks.↗ · The wedding festivities lasted a whole month.↗

festoon — Everyday, meaning 1: A festoon is a chain or string of flowers, leaves, ribbons or lights hanging in a curve between two points.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To festoon is to decorate a place with such chains.↗ Example: Brilliant lamps hung in festoons from tree to tree.↗ · Birds, flowers and festoons appeared in a tangle.↗ · The hall was festooned with paper flowers for the feast.↗

fetch — Everyday, meaning 1: To go to get something or someone and bring them back: fetch the ball, fetch your coat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be sold for a certain price: the old car fetched 500 dollars.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: "Fetch" is also a game where you throw a ball or stick for a dog to bring back.↗ Example: Please fetch your coat; it's cold.↗ · The dog fetched the stick from the river.↗ · Can you fetch me a glass of water?↗ · Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.↗ · We played fetch with Bella in the park.↗ · Mum went to fetch my sister from school.↗ · The painting fetched a lot of money at the sale.↗ · His story about a talking dragon was a bit far-fetched.↗ · Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree.↗ (Torah GEN.18.4, JPS 1917)↗ · When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.↗ (Torah DEU.24.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savoury food, such as his father loved.↗ (Torah GEN.27.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.↗ (Prophets 1KI.7.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he deserveth to die.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.20.31, JPS 1917)↗ · I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.↗ (Writings JOB.36.3, JPS 1917)↗

fetcheth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «fetcheth» means «fetches», a form of «fetch»: To go to get something or someone and bring them back: fetch the ball, fetch your coat.↗

fete — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, NZ) An outdoor event, often at a school or church, with stalls, games and food to raise money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal, verb) To honour someone with parties and praise: «She was feted as a hero».↗ Example: Our school fete raised lots of money.↗ · I helped run the cake stall at the fete.↗ · There is a tombola at the summer fete.↗ · The village fete has a dog show.↗ · The team was feted when they came home with the cup.↗ · We won a goldfish at the fete.↗ · The Queen was even more delighted, and fetes were ordered over the whole kingdom.↗

fetid — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Smelling very bad, rotten.↗ Example: Dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer fetid and putrid; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honour.↗ (Writings ECC.10.1, JPS 1917)↗

fetlock — Everyday, meaning 1: The fetlock is the small joint on a horse's leg, just above the hoof, where a tuft of hair grows.↗ Example: The magic horse sank into the earth up to its fetlocks.↗ · The horse's fetlocks were splashed with mud.↗

fetter — Everyday, meaning 1: Fetters are chains put round a prisoner's hands or feet.↗ (old use).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To fetter someone is to chain them up so they cannot move freely.↗ Example: No fetters hold me now, said the tree.↗ · The conquered kings were chained up with golden fetters.↗ · The guards fettered the prisoner's hands.↗ · His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron; (Writings PSA.105.18, JPS 1917)↗ · To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; (Writings PSA.149.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; (Writings JOB.36.8, JPS 1917)↗

fettered — Everyday, meaning 1: Chained up with fetters, unable to move freely.↗ Example: Koshchei the Deathless hung in the closet, fettered by twelve chains.↗ · The lady was brought in, fettered on hands and feet.↗ · The prisoner stood fettered in the dark cell.↗

feud — Everyday, meaning 1: A long, bitter quarrel between two people, families or groups, often lasting for many generations.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To have such a long quarrel: «The two families feuded for years.».↗ Example: The two families had a feud that lasted generations.↗ · Romeo and Juliet's families were in a bitter feud.↗ · The neighbours feuded over the fence.↗ · Nobody remembered how the feud started.↗ · The feud ended when both sides forgave each other.↗ · The singers had a public feud online.↗

feudal — Everyday, meaning 1: Belonging to the feudal system: the way society was organised in medieval Europe, where kings gave land to lords in return for loyalty and soldiers, and peasants worked the land for the lords.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Old-fashioned and unfair, where a few powerful people control many others.↗ Example: In the feudal system, the king owned all the land.↗ · The feudal lord let peasants farm his land.↗ · Knights served their lords in feudal times.↗ · We drew a feudal pyramid in history.↗ · Serfs in feudal England could not leave the manor.↗ · The boss runs the company like a feudal lord.↗

feudalism — Everyday, meaning 1: Feudalism was the system in medieval Europe in which the king gave land to lords in return for loyalty and soldiers, and peasants (serfs) worked the lords' land in return for protection and a place to live.↗ Example: Feudalism came to England with the Normans in 1066.↗ · Under feudalism, peasants worked the lord's land.↗ · The feudal pyramid had the king at the top.↗ · Knights promised to fight for their lord under feudalism.↗ · Feudalism slowly ended after the Black Death.↗ · Japan also had a kind of feudalism with samurai.↗

fever — Everyday, meaning 1: A fever is when your body temperature is higher than normal because you are ill.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fever is a state of great excitement, as in football fever.↗ Example: I had a fever and stayed home from school.↗ · Mum checked my temperature for a fever.↗ · Drink lots of water when you have a fever.↗ · The whole town caught World Cup fever.↗ · Hay fever makes me sneeze in spring.↗ · The baby is running a fever.↗ · The LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.↗ (Torah DEU.28.22, JPS 1917)↗

feverish — Everyday, meaning 1: Feverish means having a fever, with a high body temperature, feeling hot, shivery and unwell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Feverish also means very fast, excited and nervous, as in feverish activity.↗ Example: I felt feverish and Mum took my temperature.↗ · The feverish child slept all afternoon.↗ · He had strange feverish dreams.↗ · The builders worked feverishly to finish before the storm.↗ · There was feverish excitement before the final.↗ · She searched feverishly for her lost ticket.↗ · In the morning, when light came, the gazelle was sick in its stomach and feverish, and its legs ached.↗

feverishly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a feverish way: with a high temperature, tossing and turning from illness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In a restless, hurried or eager way.↗ Example: The boy tossed feverishly on his bed.↗ · He jumped up feverishly and pulled a stone out of the wall.↗ · We searched feverishly for the lost key.↗

few — Everyday, meaning 1: Few means not many: few people came.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «A few» means a small number, some.↗ e.g. I have a few sweets.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fewer means a smaller number than another; fewest means the smallest number of all.↗ Example: A box has 20 balloons and a bag has 19 balloons.↗ How many fewer balloons are in the bag than in the box?↗ · Tom has 4 fewer pens than Lisa.↗ Lisa has 11 pens.↗ · Ann has a few stamps.↗ · Wait a few minutes, please.↗ · Few people swim in the sea in winter.↗ · Our team scored fewer goals than theirs.↗ · Which class has the fewest books?↗ · I have a few friends on my street.↗ · In a few minutes they were ready.↗ · Let Reuben live, and not die in that his men become few.↗ (Torah DEU.33.6, JPS 1917)↗ · and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; (Torah GEN.27.44, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.↗ (Torah GEN.29.20, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, very few, and sojourners in it, (Writings PSA.105.12, JPS 1917)↗ · When they were but a few men in number.↗ (Writings PSA.105.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Let his days be few; let another take his charge.↗ (Writings PSA.109.8, JPS 1917)↗

fewer — Everyday, meaning 1: Fewer means a smaller number of things: «fewer apples».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Few means not many; fewest means the smallest number of all.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: No fewer than means as many as, or more than, a surprisingly large number.↗ Example: Max has 2 fewer books than Lily.↗ · Max has 2 books fewer than Lily.↗ · How many fewer apples does Tom have than Ben?↗ · There are fewer children at school when it snows.↗ · Which team scored the fewest goals?↗ · Fewer than 10 people came to the show.↗ · Spiders have fewer legs than centipedes.↗ · Eat fewer sweets and more fruit.↗ · There were no fewer than thirty blossoms on its stem.↗ · According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.'↗ (Torah NUM.26.56, JPS 1917)↗ · To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance; to each one according to those that were numbered of it shall its inheritance be given.↗ (Torah NUM.26.54, JPS 1917)↗

fewest — Everyday, meaning 1: Fewest means the smallest number of things.↗ The one with the fewest has fewer than all the others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is used with things you can count: «the fewest mistakes».↗ Example: Who has the fewest stickers?↗ · Which class read the fewest books?↗ · What is the fewest number of coins to make 50 cents?↗ · The fewest number of boxes needed is 4.↗ · On the bar graph, Friday had the fewest visitors.↗ · The team with the fewest points went out.↗ · She made the fewest mistakes in the spelling test.↗ · Which month has the fewest days?↗ · The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people — for ye were the fewest of all peoples — (Torah DEU.7.7, JPS 1917)↗

fewness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Being few in number; smallness of amount.↗ Example: According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of crops doth he sell unto thee.↗ (Torah LEV.25.16, JPS 1917)↗

fez — Everyday, meaning 1: A round red felt hat with a flat top and a black tassel, with no brim, traditional in Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fez (or Fes): a famous old city in Morocco.↗ Example: The magician wore a red fez with a black tassel.↗ · My grandfather has an old fez from Morocco.↗ · The fez is named after the city of Fez.↗ · In Turkey the fez was banned about a hundred years ago.↗ · Fezzes are cool! said the Doctor in Doctor Who.↗ · The tassel on the fez swung as he danced.↗ · The red jacket fitted tight and close, the tassel on my Fez cap was of silver, and in my girdle glittered a knife and my pistols.↗