feria Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated
- in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday
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noun (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint
WordNet
Fe"ri*a noun
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(Eccl.) A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. Shipley.