0 a special event where people can enjoy a particular activity or thing:
a media-fest
1 used in combination with other nouns to create a word for a situation in which there is a lot of something:
A great many fringe activities frame this new-music fest: a youth project, a lecture, a debate and enlightening introductions to all the concerts.
Fest does not, however, produce any new material, but relies exclusively on the existing literature, without investigating new archive sources.
That is not a whinge fest; it is an intelligent approach to modern constitutional arrangements.
In the second place, this trade is of mani- fest advantage to our country.
The public are now bamboozled by this human rights fest.
It has, if anything, been something of a speech fest for them.
More than 200 colleges participated in the fest this year with great zest and zeal.
The approximate footfall of the fest was 35,000.
