(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.
Saturnalia
Definition:
(n. pl.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.
(n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
Example Sentences:
(1) In another act of Christmas violence, unidentified arsonists tried to torch one of the Freedom from Religion Foundation's billboards that proclaimed "Keep Saturn in Saturnalia" – a reference to an ancient celebration of the Roman god of agriculture.
(2) Professor Israel Gutman , an Auschwitz survivor and prominent historian, recalls that "feasts and saturnalias were celebrated at kapos' and block elders' quarters.