Definition of merrymaking
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:gay or festive activity :conviviality
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:a convivial occasion :festivity
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Christmas Eve is always an occasion of much merrymaking at our home.
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Old Timers Day festival features local bands, food vendors, artists and general merrymaking, according to a press release.
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More than 50 breweries are expected take part in Craft Beer Night, the kick off to four straight days of merrymaking.
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But the merrymaking, as the man’s striptease made clear, was already in full swing.
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Milenio reported that the merrymaking at Puente Grande was taped between December 2015 and March 2016.
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Laughter yogis have to stop bickering with laughter therapists; folks have to stop arguing over whether it’s humor or laughter or comedy or clowns that is the secret to medicinal merrymaking.
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First Known Use of merrymaking
1618
merrymaking Synonyms
Synonyms
conviviality, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), jollification, jollity, merriment, rejoicing, reveling (or revelling), revelry, whoopeeRelated Words
carousal, carouse; delight, diversion, entertainment, fun, mischief, pleasure, recreation, riot; cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, joviality, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness; carnival, celebration, festival, party, revel; frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping; enjoyment, happiness, joy; binge, fling, frolic, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, spree; buffoonery, clownery, clownishness, flippancy, frivolity, funning, jesting, jocularity, joking, joshing, levity, lightheartedness, playfulness, zaninessNear Antonyms
blackness, darkness, dolefulness, dolor, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartsickness, miserableness, misery, mournfulness, mourning, woe, wretchedness; dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dumps, forlornness, joylessness, melancholy, sorrow, unhappinessMERRYMAKING Defined for English Language Learners
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