Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Boisterous merrymaking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of reveling; merrymaking; especially, boisterous festivity or jollity.
- noun Synonyms See
carousal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Joyful merry-making .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unrestrained merrymaking
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Examples
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The revelry is short-lived, however, for the monster Grendel (Crispin Glover) shows up and kills people in graphic fashion.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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The revelry is short-lived, however, for the monster Grendel (Crispin Glover) shows up and kills people in graphic fashion.
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That evening and well into the night, the coffee flowed freely to the townspeople, who engaged in revelry unlike the town of Plum Rose had ever seen.
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That evening and well into the night, the coffee flowed freely to the townspeople, who engaged in revelry unlike the town of Plum Rose had ever seen.
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The chief feature of the revelry was the distribution of gifts on the
Bride of the Mistletoe James Lane Allen 1887
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The whole scene -- as the cooks moved actively about upon the lawn, and children romped round the fires, and settlers came flocking through the forests -- might have recalled the revelry of merry England in the olden time, though the costumes of the far west were, perhaps, somewhat different from those of old England.
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His favourite part of the revelry is the march by different infantry, cavalry and mechanised regiments.
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The arrival of the guests, the welcomes, and the "revelry" of the assembly.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Ontario. Ministry of Education
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His father, having found out the contrivance by which he raised money for this kind of revelry adopted, in his own imagination, a wiser course.
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834
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In a shockingly inaccurate critique of QuAM for focusing on "revelry" as opposed to "awareness", the Editorial Board not only passes judgment on an arbitrary conception of education, but participates in the stigmatization of LGBT sexuality.
Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City. -Columbia Daily Spectator 2008
Kristianto2010 commented on the word revelry
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.” 1 Corinthians 10:7
January 19, 2011