Feria

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Feria \Fe"ri*a\, n.; pl. {Feri[ae]}. (Eccl.)
     A week day, esp. a day which is neither a festival nor a
     fast. --Shipley.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  feria
       n 1: 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"
       2: (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair,
          usually in honor of some patron saint
       [also: {feriae} (pl)]