Portuguese | English |
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festa noun {f} | feast [feasts](festival, holiday, solemn, or more commonly, joyous, anniversary) party [parties](social gathering) |
festa americana noun {f} | potlatch(communal meal to which guests bring dishes to share, see also: potluck) |
festa de aniversário noun {f} | birthday party(a party held to celebrate a birthday) |
festa de debutante noun {f} | quinceañera(in Mexico, fifteenth birthday celebration for a young woman) |
festa de inauguração noun | housewarming(party) |
festa de quinze anos noun {f} | quinceañera(in Mexico, fifteenth birthday celebration for a young woman) |
festa do pijama noun {f} | sleepover(the act of spending the night as a guest in another's house) |
festa do sacrifício proper noun {f} | Eid al-Adha(Islamic festival) |
festa surpresa noun {f} | surprise party(type of party) |
festar verb | party [partied, partying, parties](to celebrate at a party) |
arroz de festa noun | social butterfly(person who likes to attend parties and other social gatherings) |
Boas Festas phrase | happy holidays(holiday greeting) |
Boas Festas! phrase | Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year(traditional greeting for the Christmas and the new year) |
dar uma festa verb | throw a party(organize a party) |
grandes festas proper noun {f-Pl} | High Holidays(Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, collectively) |
infestar verb | invade [invaded, invading, invades](to infest or overrun) overrun [overran, overrun, overrunning, overruns](to infest, swarm over) swarm [swarmed, swarming, swarms](to fill a place as a swarm) |
manifestante noun {m} {f} | demonstrator [demonstrators](a person involved in a demonstration) protester [protesters](person who protests) |
manifestar verb | manifest [manifested, manifesting, manifests](to show plainly; to make to appear distinctly) |
manifestação noun {f} | epiphany [epiphanies](manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being) manifestation [manifestations](the act or process of becoming manifest) protest [protests](collective gesture of disapproval: demonstration, see also: demonstration) utterance [utterances](an act of uttering) |
os ratos fazem a festa phrase | when the cat's away the mice will play(in the absence of a controlling entity, subordinates will take advantage of circumstances) |