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# revelry

noun (no plural)

«revelry» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Revelry is noisy, happy partying with dancing, feasting and music. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revelry/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales a town or hall is full of festive noise, music and dancing

### Examples

- The city was full of revelry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revelry/#x1)
- Comus was the god of banquets and revelry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revelry/#x2)
- Dancing and revelry began in the evening. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revelry/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Loud wild feasting and drinking by the rich and careless.

**Interpretation.** Amos warns that the comfortable who ignore justice will be the first exiled, and tradition teaches that reveling does not last.

### Examples

- Therefore now shall they go captive at the head of them that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away. (Prophets AMO.6.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/revelry/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «revelry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revelry/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«revelry» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/revelry.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «revelry» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/revelry/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«revelry» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/revelry.html) on Mova free.