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noun
1.
a day of celebration; holiday: The Fourth of July is a great American fete.
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a festive celebration or entertainment: The ball was the greatest fete of the season.
3.
a religious feast or festival: a fete lasting several days in honor of a saint.
verb (used with object)
4.
to entertain at or honor with a fete: to fete a visiting celebrity.
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- Now would seem a good time for finance to fete its own flops, too.
- Since you are omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent it won't cripple your preparations to the fete.
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fete
1754, from Fr. fête "festival, feast," from O.Fr. feste (see feast). First used in Eng. by Horace Walpole (1717-97). The verb is from 1819. Related: Feted; fetes
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