FERIA

feria

(noun) (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint

feria

(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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

feria (plural ferias or feriae)

A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.

Anagrams

• Arfie, Freia, afire, faire, rafie

Proper noun

Feria (plural Ferias)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Feria is the 19229th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1411 individuals. Feria is most common among Hispanic/Latino (75.55%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (14.67%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Arfie, Freia, afire, faire, rafie

Source: Wiktionary


Fe"ri*a, n.; pl. Feriæ (. (Eccl.)

Definition: A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a fast. Shipley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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