REVELRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revelry mean? 

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

1. unrestrained merrymaking

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVELRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrestrained merrymaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

revel; revelry

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

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

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

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)

 Context examples 

All day long the sound of revelry and of rejoicing from the crowded camp swelled up to the ears of the Englishmen, and they could see the soldiers of the two nations throwing themselves into each other's arms and dancing hand-in-hand round the blazing fires.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it looks like revelry.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)