gala vs semifinal

gala

noun
  • A competition 

  • A showy and festive party. 

  • Pomp, show, or festivity. 

  • A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. 

adj
  • Celebratory; festive. 

semifinal

noun
  • A competition that narrows a field of contestants (semifinalists) to a set of finalists, for a subsequent final. 

  • A playoff in the round with only four players or teams left, the stage before the final. 

How often have the words gala and semifinal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )