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noun

as in merrymaking

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verb

present participle of carouse
as in drinking
to take part in drunken revelry spent all of shore leave carousing with his mates

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Recent Examples of carousing
Noun
Illustration by Patricia Bolaños The art of carousing has long featured a mystical element. — Marina Harss, New Yorker, 10 July 2026 Two teens who engaged a Waymo car for an afternoon of carousing were busted after the vehicle delivered them to the San Mateo police. — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 7 July 2026 Open Thursday to Sunday during the day, La Copine is a respite after a long hike — or a long night of carousing. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 24 Mar. 2026 There was drunken carousing and little street parking to be had on big college bar weekends and the Indianapolis Art Fair weekend. — Shari Rudavsky, IndyStar, 22 Mar. 2026 Their spaces are meant for gathering and carousing—not just looking at. — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 The carousing reached its apogee on the final night. — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2024
Verb
Three sitting rooms are complemented by a further three members’ social spaces for carousing in, concealed behind a subtle screen (here, DJs including Goldierocks make appearances, and mobile snaps are banned; staff politely place a sticker over mobile camera lenses). — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026 The team were meek in defeat, but after a weekend carousing and communing in central London, Newcastle fans arrived at Wembley with a collective hangover. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026 But that doesn’t add much beyond three crusty Báthory ancestors carousing drunkenly in their coffins. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carousing
  1. merrymaking
  2. drinking
  3. revelry
  4. reveling
  5. jollity
  6. bingeing
  7. hilarity
  8. gaiety
Noun
  • Nor did great merrymaking surround its 2001 move to pioneer quantitative easing.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Once ground was completely covered with shards of tableware, folks journeyed from their seats into the center of the room for more dancing and merrymaking.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Definition of merrymaking
Verb
  • People can get the stomach bug by eating and drinking food and water contaminated with poop.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026
  • Alcohol disrupts sleep, but drinking earlier may give your body more time to process it before bedtime, reducing its impact on sleep quality.
    — Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 17 July 2026
Definition of drinking
Noun
  • All of it comes together in their new album in a rich symphonic display that creates tension, emotion, introspection, and revelry and that tells a deep narrative through sound, one that even the addition of lyrics couldn’t improve on.
    — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 9 July 2026
  • Egypt won in penalties as well to join Mexico and Norway in newfound revelry.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of revelry
Verb
  • The Dodgers’ come-from-behind win in Game 5 of the 2024 World Series clinched a series victory over the Yankees and produced the prevailing image of Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and their teammates reveling on the Yankee Stadium diamond.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026
  • When the Black Queen’s message arrives in the Riverlands, the king consort, lil’ Oscar Tully, and their new pal Roddy the Ruin are busy reveling, making up ballads dedicated to their own derring-do.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Definition of reveling
Noun
  • The finale is an ambiguous mix of jollity and agitation, with a piccolo shrieking above a militant march.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Winston Peacock’s Ghost of Christmas Present is especially winning with decidedly John Belushi-esque jollity.
    — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 10 Dec. 2025
Definition of jollity
Verb
  • This is someone’s Super Bowl, if the Super Bowl was about binging 15 pounds of cased beef tubes.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • Michelle has also faced ongoing comments on her appearance ‒ a 2011 cartoon depicted her as overweight and bingeing on hamburgers and more recently, she has been accused of taking Ozempic to lose weight.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 15 June 2026
Definition of bingeing
Noun
  • Roisin Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan and Caoilfhionn Dunne anchor a top-notch ensemble as a trio of friends whose trip from Belfast to Ireland’s County Donegal for a funeral leads to unearthed secrets, hilarity and emotion.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
  • Root deflects credit for its hilarity.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026
Definition of hilarity
Noun
  • Anchoring all this is Fiomona’s open-hearted and entertaining performance, deftly moving between emotionally heavy dramatic scenes and others full of gaiety.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • The night carried a distinctly American blend of violence and gaiety.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
Definition of gaiety

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