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
feria (plural ferias or feriae)
A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.
• Arfie, Freia, afire, faire, rafie
Feria (plural Ferias)
A surname.
• 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.
• 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
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
