Fete
noun
A big celebration or festival with music, food, games, etc.
The village fete has become an annual tradition.
Often appears as...
- village fete
- annual fete
verb
To honor someone with a big celebration or public event.
The winning team was feted with a grand parade.
Often appears as...
- feted with a parade
- feted as a hero
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Formal
noun
A big celebration or festival with music, food, games, etc.
The village fete has become an annual tradition.
Often appears as...
- village fete
- annual fete
verb
To honor someone with a big celebration or public event.
The winning team was feted with a grand parade.
Often appears as...
- feted with a parade
- feted as a hero
Usage tips
Formal
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Pro Tip 1/3Community Events
Often relates to local community celebrations, not nationwide.
The annual fete brought the whole neighborhood together.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdoor Gathering
Fetes are typically held outdoors and involve various stalls and activities.
At the summer fete, local crafts were sold under colorful tents.
Pro Tip 3/3Fundraising Aspect
Many fetes have a fundraising purpose for schools, churches, or charities.
The proceeds from the village fete will go to the new library fund.
Pro Tip 1/3Community Events
Often relates to local community celebrations, not nationwide.
The annual fete brought the whole neighborhood together.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdoor Gathering
Fetes are typically held outdoors and involve various stalls and activities.
At the summer fete, local crafts were sold under colorful tents.
Pro Tip 3/3Fundraising Aspect
Many fetes have a fundraising purpose for schools, churches, or charities.
The proceeds from the village fete will go to the new library fund.
Pro Tip 1/3Community Events
Often relates to local community celebrations, not nationwide.
The annual fete brought the whole neighborhood together.
Pro Tip 2/3Outdoor Gathering
Fetes are typically held outdoors and involve various stalls and activities.
At the summer fete, local crafts were sold under colorful tents.
Pro Tip 3/3Fundraising Aspect
Many fetes have a fundraising purpose for schools, churches, or charities.
The proceeds from the village fete will go to the new library fund.
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A Saudi woman who dared...
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An inventory of the...
by a devoted smiling woman of indescribable ugliness. Try as he might, he couldn't get away from her. A few days later he received a letter from a constituent saying how much she admired him, had met him at a fete and asking for a signed photograph.
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Diane Cook & Len...
house and the garden and to unveil his new estate and garden to the king and the French Court who k decided to plan an elaborate evening fete and on that evening in August 1661 at the end of the
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A Saudi woman who dared...
as they are inferior and they need a guardian to protect them so they need to take permission from this garden with a verbal or written all the lives world minors until the day we die and it becomes worse when it's enshrined in religious fete was based on wrong
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An inventory of the...
by a devoted smiling woman of indescribable ugliness. Try as he might, he couldn't get away from her. A few days later he received a letter from a constituent saying how much she admired him, had met him at a fete and asking for a signed photograph.
Video examples
Diane Cook & Len...
house and the garden and to unveil his new estate and garden to the king and the French Court who k decided to plan an elaborate evening fete and on that evening in August 1661 at the end of the
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Eugene Ionesco
French Dramatist
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.
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Rachel Johnson
British Author
I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
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Bradley Wiggins
British Athlete
When I did win the Tour, I felt I was feted more in the U.K. for being an Olympic gold medallist... Then I come back to Europe to race, and they're not interested in the Olympic gold; it's about being the winner of the Tour de France - here he is.
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Marie Antoinette
French Royalty
In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.
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Sandra Lee
American Author
My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.
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Ben Shapiro
American Author
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.
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Paul McCartney
English Singer
I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
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Eugene Ionesco
French Dramatist
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.
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Rachel Johnson
British Author
I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
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Bradley Wiggins
British Athlete
When I did win the Tour, I felt I was feted more in the U.K. for being an Olympic gold medallist... Then I come back to Europe to race, and they're not interested in the Olympic gold; it's about being the winner of the Tour de France - here he is.
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Marie Antoinette
French Royalty
In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.
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Sandra Lee
American Author
My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.
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Ben Shapiro
American Author
The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.
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Paul McCartney
English Singer
I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
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