Translation guide
A large, elaborate meal, often for a celebration. In Japanese, the most common word is ごちそう, which can refer to a feast or a treat. There are also specific terms for banquets, festivals, and metaphorical feasts.
feast (meal)
The speaker wants to refer to a big, special meal, often for a celebration or holiday.
The most common and versatile word for a feast or special meal. Can be used for home-cooked feasts, restaurant meals, or treats.
Tonight we feast!
My mother made a feast for us.
A banquet or formal dinner party, often with drinking. Used for company parties, wedding receptions, etc.
The year-end party was a big feast.
A celebratory feast or banquet. More formal and less common in daily speech.
A wedding feast was held.
The speaker refers to a feast associated with a religious or cultural festival.
The speaker uses 'feast' figuratively to describe an abundance of sensory delights.
Attach のごちそう to a noun to mean 'a feast for the ~'. For example, 目のごちそう (a feast for the eyes).
This museum is a feast for the eyes.
Her singing voice is a feast for the ears.
To enjoy or savor something fully, often used in the sense of feasting on an experience. Can be used as a noun or verb.
The speaker wants to express the action of eating a lot, as in 'to feast on something'.
To eat one's fill; to eat a lot. たらふく is an adverb meaning 'to one's heart's content'.
Yesterday I feasted on grilled meat.
To eat heartily or greatly. More formal than たらふく食べる.
Gluttony or eating to excess. Often used in a negative or critical sense.
ごちそう can be used both for the food itself and for the act of treating someone. When you treat someone to a meal, you say ごちそうする. After eating, you say ごちそうさま (thank you for the meal).
The word ちそう alone is not used. Always use ごちそう with the honorific prefix ご.
We gather around the New Year's feast.
秋の味覚を堪能した。
I feasted on the flavors of autumn.
They feasted and drank heavily.
飽食の時代と言われる。
It's called an age of feasting (excess).