Meaning

An instance of merrymaking; a celebration..

Definitions by Sense

1. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
2. A kind of dance.
3. A wake for the dead.
4. To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.
5. To take delight (in something).
6. (obsolete) To draw back; to retract.
7. (architecture) Alternative form of reveal.

Example Sentences

Our revels now are ended.

"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"

If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

[…] so they might spend the livelong day as befitteth high holiday, in pleasure and action without care, and thereafter revel in the lofty presence chamber till night grew old with eating and drinking and all delight.

Slowing down doesn't have to feel like holding back. It can be an opportunity to revel in sounds and sensations, to not be so concerned about where we are going but to enjoy the moment and become comfortable where we are.

It then revelleth and drawethe backe agayne those humors which concurre towardes the Eyes.

Word Forms

• revels
• reveling
• revelling
• reveled
• revelled

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Use revel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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