revel

/'revl/
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revel

The children revel in the colorful confetti falling around them.

Definition

  1. 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.

  2. 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.)
revel

The children revel in the colorful confetti falling around them.

Noun
  1. unrestrained merrymaking
Verb
  1. celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
    • The members of the wedding party made merry all night
    • Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!
  2. take delight in
    • he delights in his granddaughter

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