MAKE MERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make merry mean? 

• MAKE MERRY (verb)
  The verb MAKE MERRY has 1 sense:

1. celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities

  Familiarity information: MAKE MERRY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE MERRY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

jollify; make happy; make merry; make whoopie; racket; revel; wassail; whoop it up

Context example:

Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!

Hypernyms (to "make merry" is one way to...):

celebrate; fete (have a celebration)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make merry"):

carouse; riot; roister (engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

merrymaking (a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity)

 Context examples 

I hide the girls in the daytime, and make merry with them in the evening.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were beginning to make merry over their comrade's absence.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Miss Lydia is going to be married; and you shall all have a bowl of punch to make merry at her wedding.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast and make merry, and show the child to all the land.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)