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Definition: REVELLING |
REVELLING1. Of Revel |
Date "REVELLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rejoicing | Noun: rejoicing, exultation, triumph, jubilation, heyday, flush, revelling; merrymaking; (amusement); jubilee; (celebration); paean, Te Deum; (thanksgiving); congratulation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "REVELLING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.67% of the time. "REVELLING" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 97.67% | 84 | 36,109 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 86 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "REVELLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | schwelgerisch (self indulgent, sumptuous, voluptuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | baldoria (bacchanal, binge, carouse, good time, jamboree, jollification, merriment, merrymaking, razzle-dazzle, revel, reveling, revelry, spree), bagordo (revelry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evellingray rumlande (roistering). (various references) sự vui chơi sự ăn chơi chè chén (revelry), sự chè chén say sưa (revelry), cuộc truy hoan (ploy, revel, revelry), cuộc chè chén ồn ào (revelry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | comede, comedi, comedis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-l-n-r-v" | |
-1 letter: leveling, levering, reveling. | |
-2 letters: eviller, leering, livener, reeling, reeving, regiven, veering, veliger. | |
-3 letters: envier, eviler, giller, grieve, grille, levier, lierne, liever, linger, nellie, regive, reline, relive, revile, veiler, veiner, venire. | |
-4 letters: elver, ervil, genie, genre, given, giver, green, grill, iller, ingle, leger, level, lever, levin, liege, lieve, liger, liner, liven, liver, livre, nerve, never. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-l-n-r-v" | |
+2 letters: overselling, revealingly. | |
+3 letters: bedrivelling, intervillage. | |
+4 letters: everlastingly, overpedalling. | |
+5 letters: overwhelmingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 56 45 4C 4C 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ...- . .-.. .-.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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