Revelry
['revlrɪ] or ['rɛvlri]
Definition
(n.) The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Carousal, carouse, revel, jollity, festivity, orgies, bacchanals, saturnalia, wassail, debauch, potation, compotation, SPREE, jollification, drinking bout.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Carousal, noisy, festivity, feast, orgies, wassail
ANT:Fast, abstinence
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Examples
- To midnight revelry, and the panting emulation of beauty, to costly dress and birth-day shew, to title and the gilded coronet, farewell! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To their nostrils came the salt savor of the sea, and at intervals they could hear the songs and revelry of their foes on the beach below. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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