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Definition: REVELING |
REVELINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Revel |
Date "REVELING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: REVELING |
| English words defined with "REVELING": Comessation ♦ Flash house ♦ Revelment, Revelous. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "REVELING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | feiernd (celebrating, feting, solemnizing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | baldoria (bacchanal, binge, carouse, good time, jamboree, jollification, merriment, merrymaking, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelling, revelry, spree). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | evelingray gloddest (carousal). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"REVELING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eveling, raveing, ravelian, ravelings, ravelling, reelings, revelant, revelent, revelings, revellings, revilings, revilling, revoling, rewelding, Rivelino, Rivilin, Trevellian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "REVELING" (pronounced re"vuling) |
| 6 | -e" v u l i ng | leveling. |
| 5 | -v u l i ng | groveling, raveling, rivaling, shriveling, swiveling, traveling, travelling, unraveling. |
| 4 | -u l i ng | ambling, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, barreling, battling, belittling, bicycling, boggling, bottling, bristling, bubbling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, bustling, cackling, canceling, cancelling, channeling, chortling, circling, coddling, commingling, counseling, cradling, crippling, crumbling, cycling, dabbling, dangling, dazzling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, dwindling, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, entitling, equaling, fizzling, fondling, fumbling, funneling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hassling, hobbling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, labeling, mangling, marshaling, meddling, middling, mingling, mislabeling, modeling, mottling, muddling, mumbling, muscling, nibbling, paddling, paneling, parceling, pedaling, peddling, piddling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, remodeling, resembling, reshuffling, rippling, ruffling, rumbling, saddling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, settling, shuttling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, spiraling, spiralling, squabbling, stapling, stenciling, strangling, struggling, stumbling, tabling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trembling, tripling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twinkling, unsettling, waggling, warbling, wiggling, wobbling, wrangling, wrinkling, yodeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, beguiling, Belling, billing, blackmailing, boiling, Bolling, bowling, brawling, broiling, buckling, burgling, burling, cajoling, calling, Carling, ceiling, chilling, chronicling, chuckling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, crawling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, darling, dawdling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, drilling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, earthling, emailing, enrolling, entailing, entangling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, galling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, growling, hailing, handling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, holing, howling, hurling, hurtling, inhaling, inkling, installing, instilling, jailing, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, Marling, Melling, milling, mishandling, misspelling, mothballing, mulling, nailing, needling, nestling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, peeling, pickling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, quelling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, reeling, regaling, rekindling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruling, rustling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shuffling, sibling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squealing, stalling, starling, startling, stealing, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strickling, stripling, strolling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, Tilling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, trailing, trampling, trickling, trifling, trilling, trolling, twiddling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, wailing, walling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiling, willing, wrestling, yearling, yelling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: levering. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-r-v" | |
-1 letter: leering, livener, reeling, reeving, regiven, veering, veliger. | |
-2 letters: envier, eviler, grieve, levier, lierne, liever, linger, regive, reline, relive, revile, veiler, veiner, venire. | |
-3 letters: elver, ervil, genie, genre, given, giver, green, ingle, leger, lever, levin, liege, lieve, liger, liner, liven, liver, livre, nerve, never, nieve, reign, reive, renig, revel, riven, vegie, venge, verge, viler. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-n-r-v" | |
+1 letter: inveigler, laveering, relieving, revealing, revelling, veeringly. | |
+2 letters: delivering, inveiglers, leveraging, replevying. | |
+3 letters: bedriveling, desilvering, divergently, everlasting, lavendering, overindulge, overleaping, overlending, overletting, overmelting, overselling, replevining, resilvering, revealingly, sovereignly. | |
+4 letters: bedrivelling, everblooming, everlastings, interleaving, intervillage, overcleaning, overclearing, overindulged, overindulges, overlearning, overpedaling, overpeopling, oversleeping, overwhelming, redelivering, redeveloping, reevaluating, unprivileged, volunteering. | |
+5 letters: cantilevering, everlastingly, outdelivering, overbearingly, overbleaching, overindulgent, overpedalling, overweeningly, perseveringly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 56 45 4C 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ...- . .-.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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