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or reveller
as in celebrant
one who engages in merrymaking especially in honor of a special occasion
wedding revelers whooping it up until dawn
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Recent Examples of reveler
Even though there was no such event planned, throngs of revelers showed up expecting festivities.
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Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
The annual Lunar New Year Lion Dance Parade, led each year by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England (CCBA), kicked off at 11 a.m. Sunday morning with live performances, pounding drums and crowds of revelers braving the cold.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 10 Feb. 2025
In the wild days of the late 1980s and 1990s, Brantley says, bars along Bourbon Street would pay strippers to show off their goods on the long gallery balconies lining the road, and host ceremonial light pole-greasings to stop revelers climbing them.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
Related article Barricades were supposed to keep Bourbon Street revelers safe.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
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Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
The annual Lunar New Year Lion Dance Parade, led each year by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of New England (CCBA), kicked off at 11 a.m. Sunday morning with live performances, pounding drums and crowds of revelers braving the cold.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 10 Feb. 2025
In the wild days of the late 1980s and 1990s, Brantley says, bars along Bourbon Street would pay strippers to show off their goods on the long gallery balconies lining the road, and host ceremonial light pole-greasings to stop revelers climbing them.
—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
Related article Barricades were supposed to keep Bourbon Street revelers safe.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for reveler
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“Reveler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reveler. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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