| Main Entry: | carousal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debauchery |
Synonyms: |
bacchanals, banquet, bender, binge, carouse, drunk, feast, festival, frolic, jamboree, jamboree, orgy, revel, romp, saturnalia, shindy, spree, wassail |
| Notes: | carousal is a drunken spree; carousel is a merry-go-round or baggage machine at an airport |
| Main Entry: | binge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spree |
Synonyms: |
affair, bender, blind*, bout*, carousal, compotation, drunk*, fling, jag, orgy, toot |
Antonyms: |
saving |
| Main Entry: | carnival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outdoor celebration |
Synonyms: |
Mardi Gras, amusement park, bacchanal, carny, carousal, circus, conviviality, exposition, fair, feasting, festival, fete, fiesta, frolic, gala, grind show, heyday, jamboree, jollification, jubilee, masquerade, merrymaking, orgy, ragbag, revelry, rout, saturnalia, side show, spree, street fair |
| Main Entry: | celebration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commemoration of occasion, achievement |
Synonyms: |
anniversary, bash*, birthday, blast*, blowout, carousal, ceremony, conviviality, festival, festivity, fete, frolic, gaiety, gala, glorification, hilarity, honoring, hoopla, hullabaloo*, jollification, joviality, jubilation, jubilee, keeping, magnification, memorialization, merriment, merrymaking, observance, party, performance, recognition, remembrance, revelry, saturnalia, solemnization, spree, triumph, wingding |
| Main Entry: | debauchery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
Synonyms: |
bender, binge, blowout, burning candle at both ends, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunk*, excess, fast living, fornication, gluttony, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, la dolce vita, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, licentiousness, life in fast lane, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, sensuality, sybaritism, tear* |
Antonyms: |
benevolence, giving, mercifulness, unselfishness |
| Main Entry: | feast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | banquet and celebration |
Synonyms: |
barbecue, big feed, blow*, blowout, carnival, carousal, clambake, dinner, entertainment, fest, festival, festivity, fete, fiesta, gala, jollification, merrymaking, picnic, potlatch, refreshment, regale, repast, spread, treat, wassail |
| Main Entry: | festivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, revelry |
Synonyms: |
amusement, bash*, blowout, carousal*, clambake, conviviality, do*, entertainment, festival, fun, fun and games, gaiety, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, jamboree, jollity, joviality, joyfulness, levity, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, party, pleasure, revel, reveling, revelment, shindig*, sport, whoopee, wingding |
| Notes: | a festival is a celebration for a specific occasion; festive means joyous, celebratory, or merry; festivity is any joyous diversion |
| Main Entry: | orgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration devoted to sensual enjoyment |
Synonyms: |
bacchanal, bacchanalia, bender, binge*, blowout, bout*, carousal, circus, debauch, dissipation, excess, feast, fling*, indulgence, jag, merrymaking, overindulgence, party, rampage*, revel, revelry, saturnalia, splurge, spree, surfeit, tear* |
| Main Entry: | party |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social gathering |
Synonyms: |
affair, amusement, at-home, ball, banquet, barbecue, bash*, blowout, carousal, carousing, celebration, cocktails, coffee klatch, coming-out, dinner, diversion*, do*, entertainment, feast, festive occasion, festivity, fete, fun, function, gala, get-together, luncheon, movable feast, orgy, prom, reception, riot, shindig*, social, soiree, splurge, spree*, tea |
| Main Entry: | revel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebration, merrymaking |
Synonyms: |
bacchanal, carousal, carouse, debauch, festivity, frolic, gaiety, gala, high jinks, jollification, jollity, merriment, party, reveling, revelment, saturnalia, skylarking, spree, wassail, whoopee |