Wordnet 3.0
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