- festival - a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
--1 is a kind of time period, period of time, period
--1 has particulars: religious festival, church festival- festival, fete - an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival"
--2 is a kind of celebration, festivity
--2 has particulars:carnival; Dionysia, Bacchanalia; eisteddfod; film festival; jazz festival; Kwanzaa, Kwanza; Oktoberfest; Saturnalia; sheepshearing - festival, fete - an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); "a drama festival"