Revel
['rev(ə)l] or ['rɛvl]
Definition
(noun.) unrestrained merrymaking.
(verb.) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; 'The members of the wedding party made merry all night'; 'Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!'.
Editor: Val--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) See Reveal.
(v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
(v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
(v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
(v. t.) To draw back; to retract.
Inputed by Carlo
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Carousal, REVELRY.
v. n. [1]. Carouse, tipple, riot, make merry, plunge into dissipation.[2]. Indulge, luxuriate, wanton.
Typist: Millie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Carouse, feast, banquet, luxuriate, wallow
ANT:Fast, abstain, nauseate
Typist: Ruth
Definition
v.i. to feast in a riotous or noisy manner: to carouse.—v.i. to draw back:—pr.p. rev′elling; pa.t. and pa.p. rev′elled.—n. a riotous feast: carousal: a kind of dance: a wake.—ns. Rev′el-coil Rev′el-dash (obs.) a wild revel; Rev′eller one who takes part in carousals: a low liver; Rev′el-mas′ter the director of Christmas revels: the lord of misrule; Rev′elment; Rev′el-rout lawless revelry; Rev′elry riotous or noisy festivity.
Typed by Geoffrey
Examples
- Thomasin noticed all these, and was delighted that the May revel was to be so near. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I've always longed for lots of boys, and never had enough, now I can fill the house full and revel in the little dears to my heart's content. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Me loves Parpar, said the artful one, preparing to climb the paternal knee and revel in forbidden joys. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- In managing the wild instincts of the scarce manageable _bête fauve_ my powers would revel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Long years had passed since he saw it last, since he and George, as young men, had enjoyed many a feast, and held many a revel there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yes, positively revel in. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Then plunging his hands and head into the fountain, he washed from them all marks of the midnight revel. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The two gentlemen undressed leisurely on the bank, Maurice making fun of the Greek as he revelled in his favorite element. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Edison revelled in the opportunity for study and experiment given him by his long hours of freedom in the daytime, but needed sleep, just as any healthy youth does. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He could see in me nothing Christian: like many other Protestants, I revelled in the pride and self-will of paganism. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He felt his power and revelled in it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- How Mrs. Washington White revelled in it! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Rainy days I spend in the Louvre, revelling in pictures. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I don't think either summer or harvest, or winter moon, will ever shine on their revels more. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Young Bedwin Sands, then an elegant dandy and Eastern traveller, was manager of the revels. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The big chamber was the scene of many innocent revels. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If any of the old English yeomen had turned into fairies when they died, it was just the place in which they would have held their revels. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Here endeth my experience of the celebrated Turkish bath, and here also endeth my dream of the bliss the mortal revels in who passes through it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Spence