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Definition of Drunken revelry
1. Noun. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
Exact synonyms: Bacchanal, Bacchanalia, Debauch, Debauchery, Orgy, Riot, Saturnalia
Generic synonyms: Revel, Revelry
Derivative terms: Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Debauch, Debauch, Orgiastic, Orgiastic, Riot, Riotous
Generic synonyms: Revel, Revelry
Derivative terms: Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Debauch, Debauch, Orgiastic, Orgiastic, Riot, Riotous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drunken Revelry
Literary usage of Drunken revelry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both by Henry Howe (1891)
"A drunken revelry.—There being a tavern about half a mile off, ... Here I saw
about one hundred men engaged in a drunken revelry, playing cards, ..."
2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"... they refused to intercede in his behalf —a very different state of things to
that at Athens, where the young men,37 in their drunken revelry, ..."
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