noun
revelry
REHV-uh-ree
noun
1
Loud, lively celebration or merry-making.
"The streets filled with revelry after the team won the cup."
"New Year's Eve is a night of fireworks and revelry."
How to Use Revelry
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishNoisy, joyful partying — music, dancing, drinking, that sort of energy.
Common pairings
drunken revelry
a night of revelry
wild revelry
Word Forms
revelries plural
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Etymology
From Middle English revelrye, built on revel (a boisterous party) plus the suffix -ry.