revelry

English

Etymology

From Middle English revelrye; equivalent to revel +‎ -ry.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕvʹ-əl-ri, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛvəlɹi/
  • (UK, US) IPA^(key): [ˈɹɛv.əɫ.ɹi]
• Rhymes: -ɛvəlɹi

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

revelry (countable and uncountable, plural revelries)

1. Joyful or riotous merry-making.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.

   • 2007, J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:

     [During a wedding] As evening drew in and moths began to swoop under the canopy, now lit with floating golden lanterns, the revelry became more and more uncontained.

Synonyms

• celebration, festivity, revelment

Derived terms

• revelrous

Translations

joyful merry-making

• Catalan: xerinola (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂欢 (zh) (kuáng huān), 欢宴 (zh) (huān yàn)

• Danish: lyst (da)
• Finnish: juhlinta (fi), rellestys (fi)
• Galician: troula (gl) f, xolda (gl) f
• German: Festlichkeit (de) f, Lustbarkeit (de) f, Prasserei f, Orgie (de) f, Gelage (de) n, Feierei f, Feiern (de) n, Feier (de) f
• Hindi: रंगरली (hi) (raṅgarlī), भावतरंग (bhāvatraṅg), आमोद-प्रमोद (āmod-pramod)
• Italian: baldoria (it) f, gozzoviglia (it) f
• Macedonian: пи́јанка f (píjanka), ве́селба f (véselba)
• Maori: whakaharitanga, harakoa, harakoakoa
• Persian: سپرخی (separxi)
• Russian: кутёж (ru) m (kutjóž), пиру́шка (ru) f (pirúška), весе́лье (ru) n (vesélʹje), разгу́л (ru) m (razgúl)
• Ukrainian: гуляння (huljannja), бенкет (uk) m (benket), веселощі (veselošči)