How to pronounce festschrift
American English pronunciation
FEST-shrift
- IPA
- /ˈfɛstˌʃɹɪft/
- Syllables
- FEST · shrift (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What festschrift means
A book of writings put together to honor a scholar
In a sentence: For her eightieth birthday, her old students wrote a festschrift full of essays about her ideas.
Where it comes from: It was borrowed from German, from words for a celebration and a piece of writing.
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