feria

1. 1.

   a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated

   “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”

   Broaderweekday
2. 2.

   (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint

   Broadercelebration

   Spanish

Other forms of feria

plural

feriae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about feria

What does feria mean?

feria means "a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in feria?

feria has 3 syllables: fer-i-a. The stress falls on "fer". In IPA it is /ˈfɛɹiə/.

Is feria a common word?

feria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.