REVELERS Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

revelers

noun

variants or revellers

plural of reveler

as in celebrants

one who engages in merrymaking especially in honor of a special occasion wedding revelers whooping it up until dawn

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Recent Examples of revelers At Turn Verein, the area’s German community center, revelers will have the opportunity to watch traditional dancing, listen to folk and polka bands and of course, drink steins of authentic German ale alongside classic Bavarian fare. — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Videos from that day showed militants gunning down fleeing revelers, shooting the wounded at point-blank range and ambushing those seeking refuge in bomb shelters. — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 The movie played well at a packed Alice Tully Hall, and afterparty revelers were mildly upbeat. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2026 The playful call-and-response tune about a curvy woman walking up Rampart Street on Mardi Gras originated in the 1940s with the Mardi Gras Indians (also called the Black Masking Indians), a group of Black Carnival revelers. — Tracy Teo, AJC.com, 24 Sep. 2026 Thousands of revelers — the women dressed in Bavarian dirndls, the men in lederhosen — stormed the beer tents on Munich's Theresienwiese fairground in the morning to get a good spot on the benches. — ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026 In Kabul, during Eid, the streets and shops were choked with shoppers and revelers. — Rebecca Blumenstein, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026 Burning Man has only grown since, attracting hundreds of thousands if not millions of revelers across the decades. — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026 Hundreds of thousands of Cincinnati revelers pack both Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove for the fest, now in its 50th year. — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Midwest Living, 1 Sep. 2026

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Create pipelines that turn one-time celebrants into lifelong advocates.

— Stewart McLaurin, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Once in the air conditioning, celebrants were treated to a drag bingo afternoon.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 26 July 2026

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Tourists and Independence Day celebrators are expected to flock to Independence Mall on Saturday, when the new panels could be on display if the National Park Service installs them in time.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026
Amethyst Martinez In New York City, celebrators had a plethora of events to choose from to mark the United States' 250th anniversary of its independence.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026

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