Definition of: feast

(fēst) noun
1. A sumptuous repast.
2. Anything affording great pleasure or enjoyment.
3. A day set aside for the commemoration of some person or event with rejoicing; a festival or joyous anniversary: opposed to fast.
—v.t.
1. To give a feast for; entertain lavishly.
2. To delight; gratify: He feasted his eyes on her beauty.
—v.i.
3. To partake of a feast; eat heartily.
4. To dwell delightedly, as on beauty. [<OF feste <L festa, neut. plural of festus joyful]
—feast′er noun