revel
/'revl/
Definition
Verb:
- To celebrate noisily and with great enjoyment, often involving drinking and lively activities: To engage in boisterous, unrestrained festivities.
- To take great pleasure or delight in something: To enjoy an activity or experience with intense enthusiasm.
Noun:
- A noisy, lively, and unrestrained celebration or party: An instance of boisterous merrymaking.
Usage Examples
- Verb (Celebrate):
- After the final exam, the students went out to revel all night long.
- The town revels in its annual summer festival with parades and music.
- Verb (Take Delight):
- She revels in solving complex puzzles.
- He reveled in the warm sunshine after a long winter.
- Noun:
- The New Year's Eve revel lasted until dawn.
- The sounds of the midnight revel could be heard from the street.
Advanced Usage
- "to revel in": To derive great pleasure or satisfaction from a particular situation, feeling, or activity.
- The artist reveled in the positive reviews of her latest exhibition.
- He revels in the freedom of working for himself.
Variants and Related Words
- Reveler (noun): A person who is celebrating or partying noisily.
- The streets were filled with revelers after the championship win.
- Revelry (noun): Noisy, lively, and unrestrained celebration or merrymaking.
- The wedding was a night of music and revelry.
Synonyms
- Verb (Celebrate): Carouse, celebrate, make merry, whoop it up.
- Verb (Delight): Delight, bask, glory, luxuriate.
- Noun: Celebration, festivity, merrymaking, carousal.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Revel in: This is the primary and most common phrasal construction. It is used to express taking intense pleasure in something.
- She simply revels in being the center of attention.
- They reveled in their hard-earned victory.
Related Idioms
- To be in one's element: While not a direct idiom with "revel," this phrase conveys a similar sense of taking great delight and being perfectly suited to a situation, which is the essence of "reveling in" something.
- Surrounded by books, the librarian was in her element. (She was reveling in the environment.)
Noun
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unrestrained merrymaking
Verb
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celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
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The members of the wedding party made merry all night
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Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!
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take delight in
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he delights in his granddaughter
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