'Revel' definitions:
Definition of 'revel'
(from WordNet)
noun
Unrestrained merrymaking [syn: revel, revelry]
verb
verb
Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" [syn: revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail]
Definition of 'Revel'
From: GCIDE
- Revel \Re*vel"\, v. t. [L. revellere; re- + vellere to pluck, pull.] To draw back; to retract. [Obs.] --Harvey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Revel'
From: GCIDE
- Revel \Rev"el\, n. [OF. revel rebellion, disorder, feast, sport. See Revel, v. i.] A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. [1913 Webster]
- This day in mirth and revel to dispend. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. --Rambler. [1913 Webster]
- Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as {Lord of misrule}, under Lord. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Revel'
From: GCIDE
- Revel \Rev"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reveledor Revelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Reveling or Revelling.] [OF. reveler to revolt, rebel, make merry, fr. L. rebellare. See Rebel.]
- 1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. "Where joy most revels." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'revel'
From: GCIDE
- Reveal \Re*veal"\, n.
- 1. A revealing; a disclosure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Arch.) The side of an opening for a window, doorway, or the like, between the door frame or window frame and the outer surface of the wall; or, where the opening is not filled with a door, etc., the whole thickness of the wall; the jamb. [Written also revel.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'revel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adore,
- anniversaries,
- appreciate,
- bacchanal,
- ball,
- banquet,
- bask in,
- bat,
- be pleased with,
- bender,
- binge,
- bout,
- bust,
- caper,
- caracole,
- carnival,
- carol,
- carousal,
- carouse,
- celebrate,
- celebrating,
- celebration,
- ceremony,
- chirp,
- chirrup,
- clap hands,
- commemoration,
- crow over,
- cut loose,
- dance,
- debauch,
- delight,
- delight in,
- derive pleasure from,
- devour,
- dressing ship,
- drinking bout,
- eat up,
- enjoy,
- escapade,
- exult,
- fanfare,
- fanfaronade,
- feast,
- feast on,
- festival,
- festivity,
- fete,
- fling,
- flourish of trumpets,
- freak out on,
- frisk,
- frolic,
- gaiety,
- gala,
- gambol,
- get high on,
- gloat over,
- glory,
- glory in,
- groove on,
- hell,
- hell around,
- high jinks,
- holiday,
- indulge in,
- jamboree,
- jollify,
- jollity,
- jolly,
- joy,
- joyance,
- jubilate,
- jubilation,
- jubilee,
- lap up,
- lark,
- let go,
- let loose,
- let off steam,
- like,
- lilt,
- live it up,
- love,
- luxuriate in,
- mad round,
- make merry,
- make whoopee,
- marking the occasion,
- memorialization,
- memory,
- merriment,
- merrymaking,
- observance,
- orgy,
- ovation,
- party,
- ploy,
- pub-crawl,
- raise hell,
- randan,
- randy,
- regale,
- regalement,
- rejoice,
- rejoice in,
- rejoicing,
- religious rites,
- relish,
- remembrance,
- revel in,
- reveling,
- revelment,
- revelry,
- riot,
- riot in,
- rite,
- ritual observance,
- roister,
- rollick,
- romp,
- round of pleasures,
- salute,
- salvo,
- saturnalia,
- savor,
- see life,
- sing,
- skip,
- skip for joy,
- skylark,
- skylarking,
- smack the lips,
- solemn observance,
- solemnization,
- spree,
- step out,
- swim in,
- take pleasure in,
- tear,
- testimonial,
- testimonial banquet,
- testimonial dinner,
- toast,
- toot,
- treat,
- tribute,
- triumph,
- wallow in,
- wanton,
- wassail,
- welter,
- whistle,
- whoop it up,
- whoopee,
- wingding
Words containing 'Revel'
- Revelate,
- Revelation,
- Revelator,
- Reveled,
- Reveler,
- Reveling,
- Revelled,
- Revellent,
- Revelling,
- Revelment,
- Revelous,
- revelational,
- reveller,
- Book of Revelation,
- Master of the revels,
- Revel master,
- divine revelation,
- drunken reveler,
- drunken reveller,
- revelation book of,
- revelation of christ,
- Revel-rout,
- The Revelation of Saint John,
- revelation of saint john the divine