Oktoberfest

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A two-week public festival in Munich (Bavaria, southern Germany), held yearly in late September and early October, known especially for the large party tents in which revellers consume beer on long benches.

    "These Oktoberfests always resulted in bitter physical complaints, (“My liver is swelled to the thickness of seven inches, and I have spiders in my urine”), but they served for him the same peculiar function that all-night country-club gin parties were serving elsewhere."

  2. 2
    an autumn festival that involves merrymaking and drinking beer wordnet
  3. 3
    a strong lager made originally in Germany for the Oktoberfest celebration; sweet and copper-colored wordnet

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octoberfest

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"Oktoberfest has often already ended by September."

Etymology

From German Oktoberfest.

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