drunken revelry
- noun
- /ˈdrʌŋkən ˈrɛvəlri/
:
revelry borracha
- After the wedding, the guests flooded into the streets for a night of drunken revelry, laughing and dancing wildly.
- a night of drunken revelry
Your, your leaders are sitting in drunken revelry and so on and so forth.
- Your, your leaders are sitting in drunken revelry and so on and so forth.
Examples
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A night of drunken revelry in the tiny Cree settlement of 208 persons ended with two men dead and one woman, 15, suffering gunshot wounds in the face.
Academic text (2007) -
Work is suspended, and the celebrants give themselves over to drunken revelry (Violence 119).
Academic text (1993) -
Your, your leaders are sitting in drunken revelry and so on and so forth.
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But you can just stay and, you know, start a life of drunken revelry with Zofia for all I care.
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The narrator's uncle curses the bird when he learns how it was acquired after a night of drunken revelry.
Academic text (2007) -
The streets were alive with the sounds of drunken revelry as the party went on until dawn.
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As the evening progressed, the drunken revelry escalated, with cheers and music echoing throughout the neighborhood.
Synonyms
18
9.1
Too much drinking and sex for pleasure
16
5.3
A wild noisy party where people drink a lot
9
6.1
Lively noisy party with drinking and dancing
8
8.9
A loud, wild party with many people and music
5
6.3
A loud happy party with dancing and drinking
3
9.9
A wild party with a lot of drinking and loud, out-of-control behavior
1
9.9
A wild party with a lot of drinking, dancing, and people having sex
1
9.9
A wild party with much drinking and sex
1
9.9
A time of wild, noisy partying with much drinking and dancing
A noisy party where people drink and have fun
A period of heavy drinking and dangerous behavior lasting hours or days
How Wild
329
4.1
9
6.1
∞
1.0
430
1.0
- Informal
46
1.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'drunken' (having consumed alcohol) with 'revelry' (noisy celebration); a learner who knows both words will infer a celebration involving drinking. This modifier-noun composition is a standard, cross-linguistic pattern and therefore readily comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The phrase drunken revelry combines drunken meaning people who are very drunk and revelry meaning a loud, joyful 'celebration'. One strong image is of festival crowds drinking and dancing loudly in the streets until things got out of control, so drunken revelry now means a noisy, wild 'party' caused by too much drinking.