revel

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English revelen, from Old French revel, from reveler (“to be disorderly, to make merry”), from Latin rebello (“to rebel”). Doublet of rebel. ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK, US) enPR: rĕvʹ-əl, IPA(key): /ˈɹɛv.əl/ Rhymes: -ɛvəl ==== Noun ==== revel (plural revels) An instance of merrymaking; a celebration. A kind of dance. A wake for the dead. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== revel (third-person singular simple present revels, present participle (US) reveling or (UK) revelling, simple past and past participle (US) reveled or (UK) revelled) To make merry; to have a happy, lively time. Synonyms: carouse, celebrate 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany […] , volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany […] , volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95: 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. To take delight (in something). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Latin revellere, from re- + vellere (“to pluck, pull”). ==== Verb ==== revel (third-person singular simple present revels, present participle revelling, simple past and past participle revelled) (obsolete) To draw back; to retract. ==== Noun ==== revel (plural revels) (architecture) Alternative form of reveal. === Anagrams === Lever, elver, lever == Breton == === Alternative forms === reizhel === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Adjective === revel sexual === References === "revel" in TermOfis, Office Public de la Langue Bretonne == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Old French revel, from reveler. ==== Alternative forms ==== revell, revelle, rewle ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /rɛˈvɛːl/, /ˈrɛvɛl/ ==== Noun ==== revel (plural reveles) Joyfulness, entertainment, celebration, revelling. A specific instance of revelling or joyfulness. (rare, Late Middle English) Chaos, disorder. ===== Related terms ===== revelen revelour revelynge ===== Descendants ===== English: revel ===== References ===== “revel, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 September 2018. === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== revel alternative form of revelen (“to revel”)