REVEL (revelled, revelling)

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Irregular inflected forms: revelled    , revelling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does revel mean? 

• REVEL (noun)
  The noun REVEL has 1 sense:

1. unrestrained merrymaking

  Familiarity information: REVEL used as a noun is very rare.

• REVEL (verb)
  The verb REVEL has 2 senses:

1. take delight in

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

  Familiarity information: REVEL used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrestrained merrymaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

revel; revelry

Hypernyms ("revel" is a kind of...):

conviviality; jollification; merrymaking (a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revel"):

binge; bout; bust; tear (an occasion for excessive eating or drinking)

bender; booze-up; carousal; carouse; toot (revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party)

bacchanal; bacchanalia; debauch; debauchery; drunken revelry; orgy; riot; saturnalia (a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity)

whoopee (noisy and boisterous revelry)

Derivation:

revel (celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities)

• REVEL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they revel    ... he / she / it revels   
Past simple: reveled    / revelled   
Past participle: reveled    / revelled   
-ing form: reveling    / revelling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take delight in

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

delight; enjoy; revel

Context example:

he delights in his granddaughter

"Revel" entails doing...:

expend; use (use up, consume fully)

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

have a ball; have a good time (enjoy oneself greatly)

wallow (delight greatly in)

live it up (enjoy oneself)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

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 "revel" is one way to...):

celebrate; fete (have a celebration)

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

revel (unrestrained merrymaking)

reveller (a celebrant who shares in a noisy party)

revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)

 Context examples 

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.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He revelled in the vengeance he wreaked upon his kind.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I had unchained an enemy among them whose joy it was to shed their blood and to revel in their groans.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Challenger saw it, too, and reveled in the first taste of victory.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Only Louis refrained, no more than cautiously wetting his lips with the liquor, though he joined in the revels with an abandon equal to that of most of them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Stock up on flowers, a chilled bottle of champagne, and candles, and revel in your love as you ring in the New Year, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“You never do anything else, except your work. You are always insinuating. You revel in it. And when you talk of Mr. Murdstone's good intentions—”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"And not even in Hay Lane, or the fields about it, could you find a trace of them. I don't think either summer or harvest, or winter moon, will ever shine on their revels more."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From time to time the throng would be burst asunder and a lady's horse-litter would trot past towards the abbey, or there would come a knot of torch-bearing archers walking in front of Gascon baron or English knight, as he sought his lodgings after the palace revels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and on the other were tressels and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel; the whole completed by a roaring Christmas fire, which seemed determined to be heard, in spite of all the noise of the others.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)