Carousal

Definition: Carousal

Carousal

Noun

1. Revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "carousal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Etymology: Carousal \Ca*rous"al\, noun. [See Carouse, but also compare to French carrousel tilt.]. (references)

Synonyms: Carousal

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.

Food

Drinking; Verb: potation, draught, libation; carousal; (amusement); drunkenness.

Intemperance

Revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much.

Crosswords: Carousal

Annual French Military Carousal (1900)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

orgji me të pira, gosti e shfrenuar (revel), aheng (bacchanal, beano, feast). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إحتفال صاخب مخمور (carouse, jamboree). (various references)

Bulgarian 

карусел (carrousel, merry go round), веселба (gaiety, jollification, jolly, merriment, racket, randan, rattle, rejoicings, revelry, rollick, shine), пиршество (banquet, carouse, feast, regale, symposium). (various references)

Czech

pitka (bender, blind, high jinks, spree, swill). (various references)

French

beuverie. (various references)

German

zechgelage, zecherei (booze-up, boozing, carousing, potation), Trinkgelage (drinking session, libations), Gelage (banquet, binge, carousals, carouse, feast, junket, wassail). (various references)

Greek 

κρασοπότι, γλέντι (carouse, conviviality, festivity, jamboree, jollification, junket, junketing, lark, merry making, reception, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, wassail), ξεφάντωμα (jamboree, partying, razzle, revelry), ευωχία (spree, wassail). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"ת�"וללות (revelry, riotousness, roistering, tumultuousness). (various references)

Hungarian

tivornya (bat, batter, bender, binge, bum, bummer, flare-up, hellbender, high jinks, orgy, revelry), ringlispíl (carousel, carrousel, marry-go-round, merry go round, roundabout, turnabout, whirligig), mulatás (bend, buster, frolicking, gay life, high jinks, marry-making), ivászat (bend, bender, boose, booze, bouse, guzzle, heavy drinking, reels, soak, swill, toot). (various references)

Indonesian

pesta (debauch, fete, gala, orgy, party). (various references)

Italian

gozzoviglia (debauch, gluttony, revelry). (various references)

Manx

jannoo giense (junket), giense (ceilidh, do, entertainment, feast, feasting, festival, get together, house party, junket, revel, social), giensal (rejoicing, revel). (various references)

Pig Latin

arousalcay.(various references)

Portuguese

patuscada (hellbender, kick-up, revel, spree), pândega (fun, jollification, kick-up, revelry, rollick, spree, whoopee), festim (feast, feast-day, junket, kick-up, regale, symposium, wassail), festejar (carouse, celebrate, commemorate, entertain, feast, fete, racket, solemnize, treat), farra (binge, bum, bust, carouse, dissipation), bacanal (bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, debauch, orgy, spree). (various references)

Romanian

chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, booze, bust, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), beţie (booze, debauch, debauchery, drink, drinking bout, drunk, drunkenness, ecstasy, fuddle, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, libation, rouse, sheet). (various references)

Russian 

пирушка (jamboree, kick up, merry-meeting, rant, revel, revelry, rout, spread, sprees, wassail, wingding). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pijanka (batata, binge, drinking bout, guzzle, spree, wassail), lumperajka (binge, jollification), bančenje (binge). (various references)

Spanish

parranda (spree), jarana (cheerfulness, lightheartedness, rejoicing, revelry, revels, roistering). (various references)

Swedish

supkalas (bat, binge, booze, drinking bout, drunk). (various references)

Turkish

cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), içki alemi (bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, binge, booze, drinking bout, drunk, jag, souse, wassail), alem (bat, bender, binge, blast, blind, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, jollification, junket, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, riot, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world). (various references)

Ukrainian

карусель (carrousel, merry go round, roundabout, turnabout), гульня (bat, binge, bum, debauch, fuddle, hellbender, punch, razzle, razzle-dazzle, spree, toot, whiz, whizz), бенкет (banquet, epulation, feast, regale, repast), пиятика (binge, booze, carouse, crapulence, debauch, fuddle, libation, nosedive, racquet, whoopee). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cuộc chè chén say sưa. (various references)

Welsh

cyfeddach (carouse), wtres (luxury, prodigality), gloddest (reveling). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "carousal": carousals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Carousal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carosel, carosol, carossel, caroulsal, carousa, carousale, caroussel, Cartuja, caurosel, Charoupa, Karussell. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arousal, carolus, oculars, oscular.

-2 letters: acarus, carols, casual, causal, claros, clours, coalas, corals, craals, lascar, lauras, ocular, oscula, rascal, sacral, scalar, soucar.

-3 letters: arcus, aural, auras, calos, carls, carol, cauls, claro, clour, coala, coals, colas, coral, craal, curls, laura, locus, lours, orals, orcas, sacra, scaur, scour, solar, sural.

-4 letters: aals, alar, alas, also, arco.

+1 letter: carousals.

+2 letters: alacritous, calcareous, portulacas.

+3 letters: calculators, cataloguers, coloraturas, ejaculators, emasculator, lumbosacral, nonvascular, provascular, rapaciously.

+4 letters: accumulators, argillaceous, articulators, auscultatory, avariciously, cadaverously, calcareously, calumniators, chaulmoogras, constabulary, emasculators, renovascular, vocabularies.

+5 letters: agranulocytes, anachronously, articulations, astronautical, cartilaginous, confabulators, congratulates, fibrovascular, hallucinators, microvascular, oracularities, ultracautious.