reveller
someone who celebrates loudly
TRANSLATION
revellers = die Feiernden --- GOOGLE INDEX revellers: approximately 3,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
St George's Day REVELLERS Take Over Trafalgar Square
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Stonehenge is believed to have been erected more than 4,000 years ago as a temple to the sun. It attracts REVELLERS throughout the year as a place of worship, but particularly around the summer solstice.
(www.metro.co.uk)
(International Business Time, headline)
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Stonehenge is believed to have been erected more than 4,000 years ago as a temple to the sun. It attracts REVELLERS throughout the year as a place of worship, but particularly around the summer solstice.
(www.metro.co.uk)
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reveller
noun
- a person who is enjoying themselves in a lively and noisy way
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Reveller stems from the verb "to revel" (to make merry, celebrate noisily), which is from the Old French revel and further from the Latin rebellare (to rebel). The verb meaning "to feast in a noisy manner" is first recorded in the early 14th century.
In addition to the sense of dancing, drinking and singing at a party or in public, especially in a noisy way, revel is also used in the phrasal verb "revel in," meaning to receive great pleasure from a situation or an activity (He's revelling in his new role as manager of the team).
Revelling is not a modern invention of course. Humans have always loved to party. In ancient Greece for instance, the Kōmos was a ritualistic drunken procession performed by revellers known as komasts. It is widely believed that komos and the Greek "komoidia" and Latin "comoedia" (comedy) are etymologically related.
The theory is that comedy actually derived from the Greek "kōmōidos," which referred to a comic poet (kōmos = revel + aoidos = singer). And the Greeks of course had their own god who was in charge of revelry, merry-making and festivity. His name was Komos, a sort of Greek cousin of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and drunkenness.
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SYNONYMS
carouser, bacchanalian, bacchant, merrymaker, party animal, ranter
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"The football revellers kept us awake until the early hours of the morning."
noun
- a person who is enjoying themselves in a lively and noisy way
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Reveller stems from the verb "to revel" (to make merry, celebrate noisily), which is from the Old French revel and further from the Latin rebellare (to rebel). The verb meaning "to feast in a noisy manner" is first recorded in the early 14th century.
In addition to the sense of dancing, drinking and singing at a party or in public, especially in a noisy way, revel is also used in the phrasal verb "revel in," meaning to receive great pleasure from a situation or an activity (He's revelling in his new role as manager of the team).
Revelling is not a modern invention of course. Humans have always loved to party. In ancient Greece for instance, the Kōmos was a ritualistic drunken procession performed by revellers known as komasts. It is widely believed that komos and the Greek "komoidia" and Latin "comoedia" (comedy) are etymologically related.
The theory is that comedy actually derived from the Greek "kōmōidos," which referred to a comic poet (kōmos = revel + aoidos = singer). And the Greeks of course had their own god who was in charge of revelry, merry-making and festivity. His name was Komos, a sort of Greek cousin of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and drunkenness.
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SYNONYMS
carouser, bacchanalian, bacchant, merrymaker, party animal, ranter
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The football revellers kept us awake until the early hours of the morning."
