What's the difference between celebration and revelry?

Celebration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, process, or time of celebrating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
  • (2) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (3) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
  • (4) There are many examples to support his assertion, yet for the most part, it is celebrities who dictate what images can be published and what stories should be told.
  • (5) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
  • (6) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (7) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (8) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (9) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (10) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
  • (11) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (12) My boyfriend and I headed to a sushi bar to celebrate.
  • (13) In early 2009, he took part in Celebrity Big Brother for a rumoured fee of £100,000.
  • (14) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.
  • (15) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
  • (16) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (17) Two days after Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse , published a beautiful essay calling for this year's First World War commemorations to " honour those who died " and "celebrate the peace we now share", Michael Gove has delivered the government's response.
  • (18) Roche, 30, was born in High Wycombe, but moved with her British parents to Germany as a young child, and has been a national celebrity there since her teens, presenting music and culture shows.
  • (19) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (20) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.

Revelry


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Makarska offers up some fairly lively beach bars, with vodka and Red Bull prices at a troublingly low level – so the revelry continued.
  • (2) We know Miley Cyrus has at least made it to the event after a night of revelry in Amsterdam's coffee shops .
  • (3) Photograph: Emma Graham-Harrison for the Guardian Katrin and Raffaele Ausanio, the couple running the kitchen, said it was much easier feeding people during the week-long revelry of the funfair, because then they had a team of waiters to help.
  • (4) Pubs from Chicago to Boston were scenes of revelry, folks celebrating the hard work of Hume, Trimble, Adams, Paisley, and so many others.
  • (5) "A jubilant burst of celebrations in London and all over the country officially marks the start of the jubilee week revelries.
  • (6) Did you ever get together with all the punk females for an afternoon of revelry?
  • (7) It seems the stumble was caused by an excess of West End revelry rather than a fight to get to the front of the queue.
  • (8) Perla (right) and Elizabeth Ovitz: as the five sisters and two brothers were all good-looking and musically gifted, the stage seemed the perfect career However, Perla Ovitz insisted that she and her family never took part in the "nightlife" of the death camp: they never performed in these drunken revelries, never sang in public nor entertained parties of kapos and SS men.
  • (9) Superb footage from northeastern Brazil of a Meracatu group - a "fusion of pre-existing forms of Carnival revelry", of Afro-indigenous origin.
  • (10) What this one word "barista" captures, in an intense shot, is a shift away from drunken revelry.
  • (11) His tours overseas for the council, many of which reappeared transmogrified in his novels, were invariably marked by unscheduled revelry, as well as by serious literary discussions.
  • (12) Meanwhile, Tom Watson, the deputy leader of the Labour, was returning from a night of partying at Glastonbury festival, having posted pictures of his revelry on social media.
  • (13) Past midnight and into the early hours of Saturday morning, there is no tangible upsurge in threat and no sign of the revelry abating.
  • (14) Pubs from Chicago to Boston were scenes of revelry, folks celebrating the hard work of Hume, Trimble, Adams, Paisley, and so many others," Obama said.
  • (15) Photograph: Reuters Even in the state of Pernambuco, the epicenter of the Zika outbreak and a historic hub of Carnival revelry, officials said tourism has not been hit.
  • (16) And now a Saturday night of revelry in central London .
  • (17) In Manhattan, and across America, “huge, light-hearted throngs ambled down autoless streets.” Earth Day had been born, an outburst of protest – and revelry – that involved everyone from save-the-whales activists to opponents of new freeways.
  • (18) Usually, these cruises are said to be lively enough, but we were on the Hit The Deck Tour, celebrating the start of summer, where the revelry both on and off board was set to be several notches higher; to this end enormous speaker systems, booming out David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia, had been placed on all the boats.