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revelry

UK[ˈɹɛv.əɫ.ɹi]US[ˈɹɛv.əɫ.ɹi]
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,122 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: revelries

Revelry is noisy merry-making with drink and dancing. A night of revelry.

It is faintly old-fashioned and is used most in reports of festivals. Revelry is what neighbours call it and celebration is what the participants call it.

Jan Steen · Public domain

Definitions of revelry

  1. 1nounrevelryNoisy merry-making with drink and dancing.C2

    “The revelry went on until about four in the morning.”

revelry is merry-making.

Remember it

reVELry → everyone gone a little DEVILish

By midnight everyone at the party has turned a little devilish.

hooks ontodevil

Where it comes from

Middle English revelrye comes from revel, from Old French reveler, to be riotous.

  1. Middle English

    revelrye

  2. English, today

    revelry

From Middle English revelrye; equivalent to revel + ry.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

revelry in the wild

  • Three singing organs are mentioned, an addition to the revelry of Caer Vedwyd.

    Caer Sidi

  • The ballet does not directly depict the Walpurgis Night but builds on a sense of joyful revelry.

    Walpurgisnacht Ballet

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • revel