Carousing

Quick meaning: Carousing is an adjective meaning Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.

Meaning

Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of carouse
2. carousal

Example Sentences

the wild carousings of drunken revellers

A carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized.

A carousing group is almost always exclusively made up of men who are, more often than not, close in age, social position, and economic status.

I remember I was once of a party of between twenty and thirty officers, from a squadron of four or five line-of-battle ships, and some smaller vessels, which met together at a tavern at St. Pierre's, Martinico, when a carousing scene took place, so characteristically unique, that it would require the pen of Scott, or the pencil of Cruikshank , to do it justice.

Word Forms

• carousings

Synonyms for carousing

Depending on context, synonyms include inebriated, intoxicated, orgiastic, bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, orgiastic, bacchanalian, bacchic.

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