English noun: feria | |||
1. | feria (time) a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | weekday | ||
2. | feria (act) (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint | ||
Broader (hypernym) | celebration, festivity | ||
Domain category | Spanish | ||