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merrymaking

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Main Entry: merrymaking
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: celebration

Synonyms:

amusement, carousal, conviviality, enjoyment, festive, festivity, frolic, jolly, merriment, pleasure, revelry
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: cheer
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: happiness

Synonyms:

animation, buoyancy, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merry-making, mirth, optimism, solace

Antonyms:

depression, gloom, gravity, melancholy, sadness, seriousness, unhappiness
Main Entry: entertainment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amusement, pleasure

Synonyms:

ball*, bash*, big time, blast*, blow out, celebration, cheer, clambake, delight, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, enjoyment, feast, frolic, fun, fun and games, gaiety, game, good time, grins, high time, laughs, leisure activity, lots of laughs, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, picnic, play, recreation, regalement, relaxation, relief, revelry, satisfaction, shindig*, sport, spree, surprise, treat, wingding

Antonyms:

chore, drudgery, labor, task, work
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: festival
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: celebration

Synonyms:

anniversary, carnival, commemoration, competition, entertainment, fair, feast, festivities, fete, field day, fiesta, gala, holiday, jubilee, merrymaking, treat
Notes: a festival is a celebration for a specific occasion; festive means joyous, celebratory, or merry; festivity is any joyous diversion
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
Main Entry: fun
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: amusement, play

Synonyms:

absurdity, ball*, big time, blast*, buffoonery, celebration, cheer, clowning, distraction, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, escapade, festivity, foolery, frolic, gaiety, gambol, game*, good time, grins, high jinks, holiday, horseplay, jesting, jocularity, joke, joking, jollity, joy, junketing, laughter, living it up, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, nonsense, pastime, picnic, playfulness, pleasure, recreation, rejoicing, relaxation, riot, romp, romping, solace, sport, tomfoolery*, treat, whoopee

Antonyms:

sadness, work
Main Entry: gaiety
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: happiness, celebration

Synonyms:

animation, blitheness, brightness, brilliance, cheer, color, colorfulness, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor, grins, high spirits, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, joviality, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, pleasantness, radiance, revel, reveling, revelry, shindig*, showiness, sparkle, sport, sprightliness, vivacity, whoopee, wingding

Antonyms:

sadness, solemnity, unhappiness
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