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revelry

/ˈɹɛvəlɹi/[ˈɹɛv.əɫ.ɹi]

revelry noun: joyful or riotous merry-making.

Noun

revelry (countable and uncountable, plural revelries)

  1. Joyful or riotous merry-making.
    • [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.2007, J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    • The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text

revelry meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

revelry in Hindi

joyful merry-making
रंगरली raṅgarlī, भावतरंग bhāvatraṅg, आमोद-प्रमोद āmod-pramod

revelry in Urdu

عشرت, راگ رنگ

revelry in Malayalam

കൂത്താടിത്തിമിർക്കൽ, വെറിക്കൂത്ത്, മദ്യപാനാഘോഷം

revelry in Kannada

ಭಾರಿಮೋಜು, ಸಂತೋಷ ಸಂಭ್ರಮ, ಸಂತೋಷದ ಭಾರಿ ಉತ್ಸವ ಸಮಾರಂಭ, ಪ್ರಮದೋದ್ವೇಗ, ಗದ್ದಲದ ಕೂಟ
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revelry in Persian
سپرخی separxi

Synonyms of revelry

Forms of revelry

pluralrevelries

Plural of revelry: revelries

Origin of revelry

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

Words formed from revelry

Questions about revelry

What does revelry mean?
Revelry means joyful or riotous merry-making.
What is revelry in Hindi?
Revelry in Hindi is रंगरली (raṅgarlī), भावतरंग (bhāvatraṅg), आमोद-प्रमोद (āmod-pramod). See Revelry meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is revelry?
Revelry is a noun.
How do you pronounce revelry?
Revelry is pronounced /ˈɹɛvəlɹi/.
What is the plural of revelry?
The plural of revelry is revelries.

Words near revelry in the dictionary

  1. Revelos
  2. revelries
  3. revelrous
  4. revelrout
  5. revelrouts
  6. revelry
  7. revels
  8. Revelstoke
  9. revenant
  10. revenants
  11. revend

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: revelry (page history and authors); revelry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revelry (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); revelry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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