songfest en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *séngʷʰ-e-ti Proto-Germanic *singwaną Proto-Germanic *sangwaz Proto-West Germanic *sangu Old English sang Middle English song English song Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁stosder. Proto-Italic *θēstos Proto-Italic *fēstosder. Latin fēstus Latin festumder. Middle High German fëst German Festbor. English fest English -fest English songfest From song + -fest.
Meanings
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An event, often informal, where people sing together for the pleasure of it.
The routine business took an hour; for another hour the shareholders and proxies and company officers held a Yoyodyne songfest.
1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 59:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| songfests | Number=Plur | lexicographic |