Synonyms for revelry
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
Joyful or riotous merry-making.
Forms
- Plural
- revelries → festivities, celebrations, revels, jollities…
Example sentences
- celebration Parents will be invited to the school celebration.
- revel I am too sick at heart to revel, carouse, and make merry through the night.
- festivity Once the festivity finishes, we'll go back to work.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| revelry | rising | |
| celebration | rising | |
| revel | rising | |
| festivity | rising | |
| jollity | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- feast1, spree1, revel2
- 7 letters
- jollity, wassail, debauch, carouse2
- 8 letters
- jamboree, reveling3, carousal
- 9 letters
- festivity4, revelment
- 11 letters
- celebration4
- 13 letters
- jollification
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (revel2 = 2 syllables).