Meaning

2 senses

  1. A large draught of liquor.

  2. A drinking bout; a carousal.

    revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Tom spent all of shore leave carousing with friends.

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  2. I am too sick at heart to revel, carouse, and make merry through the night.

    deMir schmerzt das Herz zu sehr als dass ich mich die Nacht hindurch ergötzen, zechen und feiern könnte. — Yorwba

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Origin

From Middle French carousser (“to quaff, drink, swill”), from German gar aus (literally “a

From Middle French carousser (“to quaff, drink, swill”), from German gar aus (literally “all out, quite out”), from gar austrinken (“to drink up entirely, guzzle”). Compare German Garaus.

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Forms

plural: carouses
Singularcarouse
Pluralcarouses

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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