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# fete

noun (a fete, fetes); also fête; verb (fete, feted — formal)

«fete» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (UK, Australia, NZ) An outdoor event, often at a school or church, with stalls, games and food to raise money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/#m1)
2. (formal, verb) To honour someone with parties and praise: «She was feted as a hero». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/#m2)

### In the lessons

In UK and Australian schools, the summer fete has cake stalls, tombola, raffles and games to raise money for the school. Maths problems often use fete stalls: money raised, change, profit. In news, famous people are «feted».

### Examples

- Our school fete raised lots of money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/#x1)
- I helped run the cake stall at the fete. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/#x2)
- There is a tombola at the summer fete. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/#x3)
- The village fete has a dog show. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/#x4)
- The team was feted when they came home with the cup. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/#x5)
- We won a goldfish at the fete. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/#x6)
- The Queen was even more delighted, and fetes were ordered over the whole kingdom. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/#x7)

### Note

Pronounced «fate». Sometimes written fête. Countable. In the USA a similar event is a «fair» or «carnival». In maths: money raised = income − costs.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fete» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fete/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fete» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fete.html) on Mova free.