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Definition: Merrymaking |
MerrymakingNoun1. Boisterous celebration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "merrymaking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Synonyms: MerrymakingSynonyms: conviviality (n), jollification (n). (additional 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. |
Cheerfulness | Mirth, merriment, hilarity, exhilaration; laughter; merrymaking; (amusement); heyday, rejoicing; marriage bell. |
Rejoicing | Noun: rejoicing, exultation, triumph, jubilation, heyday, flush, revelling; merrymaking; (amusement); jubilee; (celebration); paean, Te Deum; (thanksgiving); congratulation. |
Sociality | Conviviality; good fellowship, good company; joviality, jollity, savoir vivre, festivity, festive board, merrymaking; loving cup; hospitality, heartiness; cheer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Merrymaking |
| English words defined with "merrymaking": bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic ♦ carnival, carousing ♦ high jinks, high jinx, hijinks ♦ jinks ♦ Leet ale ♦ orgiastic ♦ revel, Revelous, revelry ♦ Symposiac, Symposiast. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Merrymaking" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Merrymaking" is used about 9 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "merrymaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | festim (celebration, do, festival, frolic, jollification, regale, revel, solemnization), argëtim (amusement, cabaret, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, entertainment, fun, jamboree, merriment, pastime, ploy, razzle-dazzle, recreation, relaxation, revel, rollick, sport, sporting, spree, tittup). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увеселение (jollity), веселие (cheer, exhilaration, frolic, glee, hilarity, jollity, junket, lark, merriment, mirth, revel). (various references) | |
Finnish | ilonpito (amusement). (various references) | |
German | Belustigung (amusement, entertainment, merriment, merry making). (various references) | |
Greek | διασκέδαση (amusement, diversion, divertissement, enjoyment, entertainment, frolic, fun, jollification, junketing, lark, merriment, party, pastime, recreation, shindig, sport). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ב"ח ות. (various references) | |
Italian | baldoria (bacchanal, binge, carouse, good time, jamboree, jollification, merriment, razzle-dazzle, revel, reveling, revelling, revelry, spree). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遊興 (pleasures), '興 , '盛り (drinking bout), 祭'ぎ (festivities). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅきょう (bishop, prelate, primate), まつりさわぎ (festivities), さかもり (drinking bout), ゆうきょう (chivalrous person, pleasures, secluded place, solitude). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | errymakingmay.(various references) | |
Russian | веселье (cheer, festivity, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, hilarity, jamboree, jinks, jollity, merriment, merry-making, mirth, revel, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, sunshine, the bowl, tittup). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zabava (amusement, distraction, divertissement, entertainment, fun, jamboree, party, ride), veselje (celebration, festivity, frolic, hilarity, jollification, joy, merriment, rollick). (various references) | |
Swedish | festande (feasting, junketing, revelry, spree). (various references) | |
Turkish | neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport), cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), şen (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, convivial, eupeptic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful, sportive). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "merrymaking": merrymakings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-k-m-m-n-r-r-y" | |
-2 letters: remarking, yammering. | |
-3 letters: marrying, rearming, remaking. | |
-4 letters: angrier, armiger, earring, gammier, germina, grainer, grimmer, imagery, kerygma, krimmer, mangier, mariner, marking, marring, ramekin, rammier, ramming, rangier, reaming, rearing, yerking. | |
-5 letters: airmen, ammine, anergy, arming, earing, engram, enigma, erring, gainer, gamier, gamine, gammer, garner, german, grainy, gramme, grayer, gremmy, imager, immane, kerria, keying, kinema, knarry, maigre. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-k-m-m-n-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: merrymakings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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