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Meaning of revelry | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈɹɛvəlɹi

Definitions

Joyful or riotous merry-making.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية قصف
Български веселба
Català xerinola
Čeština hýření veselí
Dansk lyst
فارسی سپرخی
Galego troula xolda
Македонски веселба пијанка
Polski bruk
Српски veseli пијанка

Examples

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

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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