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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 1revelry [BACK TO TOP]


Unrestrained merrymaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions


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)

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