REVEL

Revel (rev′əl):

intransitive verb reveled -·eled or revelled -·elled, reveling -·el·ing or revelling -·el·ling
1. to make merry; be noisily festive
2. to take much pleasure; delight (in) to revel in one's freedom

Noun

1. boisterous festivity; merrymaking; revelry
2. an occasion of merrymaking or boisterous festivity; celebration
Etymology: ME < MFr < the v.
Related Forms:
reveler rev′·eler noun or reveller rev′·el·ler



Revel - use in sentences
Converse of object
hold: William Thomas maintains that the revel held in St. Andrews Major was ' no more than 50 yrs making ' .
Modifying Another Word
all: We were all reveling in the stunning beauty of the scenery and keeping a wary eye on the army in front of us.
Adjective modifier
most: Most zeros revel in asset cover high enough to satisfy even the most nervous investor.
high: High revel was held at night to celebrate the triennial achievement.
good: Good photographers revel in making you comfortable before their camera.
Modifying Another Word
positively: However, some people positively revel in the excitement of last-minute arrangements.
just: Or just revel in re-runs of old eighties classics.
simply: If you love reading you will simply revel in Paul Jennings ' sheer enthusiasm for books and reading.
Noun used with modifier
I: The sights and sounds of the world fill my senses and I revel in the sensation of the friendly breeze which strokes my skin.
film: Green's characters are thinkers and the film revels in charting the intricacies of their mental and emotional development.
child: The visits are always great fun and the children revel in the rugby ethos of fun, skills and competition.
Preposition: in
glory: A multitude of great space battles were both won and lost but few survived to revel in any glory.
joy: Who, more than a surfer, revels in the unique joy of bodily incarnation?
excitement: A true surfers ' paradise where you can revel in the excitement of its thunderous surf or simply relax under clear blue skies.
beauty: I am a country lover, I live here, love the wildlife, revel in te beauty.

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Revel synonyms :

Revel

Noun:

carousal, frolic, festivity; see celebration 2, entertainment 1.
revel

Verb:

1. To make merry
frolic, carouse, rejoice, party; see celebrate 3, play 1.
2. To take pleasure; used with in
indulge, delight, relish, luxuriate in; see enjoy 1, like 1.

Revel quotes:

"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedecked halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall".

-Poe, EdgarAllan 'The Masque of the Red Death', in the Gentleman's Magazine, May.