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say it: AWR-jee
orgy is a noun meaning "any act of immoderate indulgence". It carries 3 recorded senses.
any act of immoderate indulgence
“an orgy of shopping”
“an emotional binge”
“a splurge of spending”
secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for orgy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.