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NOUN (2)

1. a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated;
- Example: "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;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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