revel
- to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.
- to make merry; indulge in boisterous festivities.
- boisterous merrymaking or festivity; revelry.
- Often revels. an occasion of merrymaking or noisy festivity with dancing, masking, etc.
Origin of revel
Synonyms for revel
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For my heart leaps within me more than that of any Corybantian reveler, and my eyes rain tears when I hear him.
He began to bawl a reveler's song, popular with cowboys on a spree, and old man Thomas joined him.
The old man who believes that he is loved by a girl is a reveler in the debauchery of his own vanity.
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revel
- (foll by in) to take pleasure or wallowto revel in success
- to take part in noisy festivities; make merry
- (often plural) an occasion of noisy merrymaking
- a less common word for revelry
Word Origin for revel
Word Origin and History for reveler
also reveller, late 14c., from Old French revelour, agent noun from reveler (see revel (v.)).
revel
late 14c., "riotous merry-making," from Old French revel "entertainment, revelry," verbal noun from reveler "be disorderly, make merry" (see revel (v.)). Related: Revels; revel-rout.
revel
early 14c., "to feast in a noisy manner;" late 14c., "take part in revels," from Old French reveler, also rebeller "be disorderly, make merry; rebel, be riotous," from Latin rebellare "to rebel" (see rebel (v.)). The meaning "take great pleasure in" first recorded 1754. Related: Reveled; reveling; revelled; revelling.