fete

«fete» in Mova's school dictionary: An outdoor event, often at a school or church, with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fete, fetes); also fête; verb (fete, feted — formal)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia, NZ) An outdoor event, often at a school or church, with stalls, games and food to raise money. tree →

2) (formal, verb) To honour someone with parties and praise: «She was feted as a hero». tree →

sense in the lessons

In UK and Australian schools, the summer fete has cake stalls, tombola, raffles and games to raise money for the school. Maths problems often use fete stalls: money raised, change, profit. In news, famous people are «feted».

examples

• Our school fete raised lots of money. tree →
• I helped run the cake stall at the fete. tree →
• There is a tombola at the summer fete. tree →
• The village fete has a dog show. tree →
• The team was feted when they came home with the cup. tree →
• We won a goldfish at the fete. tree →
• The Queen was even more delighted, and fetes were ordered over the whole kingdom. tree →

note

Pronounced «fate». Sometimes written fête. Countable. In the USA a similar event is a «fair» or «carnival». In maths: money raised = income − costs.

In the corpora

• The parents of both streets even ran a summer fete together, and argued only about the tombola.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fete» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.