movable feast

1. 1.

   a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years

   Synonymsmoveable feast

   Broaderfeast day

   NarrowerEasterPassover

Questions about movable feast

What does movable feast mean?

movable feast means "a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years".

What is another word for movable feast?

Close synonyms include moveable feast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is movable feast a common word?

movable feast 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.