revel

1. 1.

   unrestrained merrymaking

   Synonymsrevelry

   Broadermerrymaking

   Narrowerbustcarouseorgywhoopee

Other forms of revel

plural

revels·

past tense or participle

revelled

present participle

revelling

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.

Questions about revel

What does revel mean?

revel means "take delight in". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revel?

revel has 2 syllables: rev-el. The stress falls on "rev". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛvəl/.

What is another word for revel?

Close synonyms include delight, enjoy, racket, make whoopie, make merry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is revel a common word?

revel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.