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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reveller
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A stone's throw away the young reveller has the choice of Harvey's or Humphrey's to continue the night out.
▪ Local resorts wanted the respectable if unrestrained reveller.
▪ One reveller was already pouring bubble bath into a huge hot tub so he and his partner could frolic in the suds.
▪ The undergraduates found him a leg-puller, and a reveller in political argument.
Wiktionary
reveller

n. One who revels; a party goer.

WordNet
reveller

n. a celebrant who shares in a noisy party; "the clubs attract revelers as young as thirteen" [syn: reveler, merrymaker]

Wikipedia
Reveller

Reveller was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. His most significant win came in the 1818 St Leger Stakes, but he remained in training until 1823, winning numerous races in the North of England. He had a long rivalry with another northern champion, Doctor Syntax.

Usage examples of "reveller".

Very slowly I rose to my feet, and as like a discreditable reveller as could be, climbed the steps.

THE GIRL MADGE CHAPTER X SMALL CAUSES A clock sounded one of the later morning hours of the night as Gower Woodseer stood at his hotel door, having left Fleetwood with a band of revellers.

They took him down a side street, now utterly deserted, and left him on the steps of a low groggery, from whence still issued the voices of some late revellers.

It is no disgrace, no more than for your adventurous reveller to fall by some inauspicious chance in his galliard, or for some subtile politic to undertake the bastinado, that the state might think worthily of him, and respect him as a man well beaten to the world.

They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.

Often at night Iranon sang to the revellers, but he was always as before, crowned only in the vine of the mountains and remembering the marble streets of Aira and the hyaline Nithra.

Carthaginian and Capuan revellers had been carousing there, and several of the shops had been broken open.

Gaspard Caderousse, unable to appear abroad in his pristine splendor, had given up any further participation in the pomps and vanities, both for himself and wife, although a bitter feeling of envious discontent filled his mind as the sound of mirth and merry music from the joyous revellers reached even the miserable hostelry to which he still clung, more for the shelter than the profit it afforded.

Once it had been a carful of yobbos, drunken revellers shouting into the night.

Once it had been a earful of yobbos, drunken revellers shouting into the night.

They were belated revellers, and had been carelessly strolling under the pinky cloudlets bedward, after a prolonged carousal with the sons and daughters of hilarious nations, until the apparition of Virgin Luck on the wing shocked all prospect of a dead fight with the tables that day.

Among the nettles and burdocks under the hurdle our revellers saw Lizaveta asleep.

Some of th more daring white revellers came here late at night, to listen to th jazz players in the crowded shebeens or to look for a pretty coloure, girl - more for the thrill of danger and discovery than for any physJ cal gratification.

Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers.

Rising hastily, I closed the door of my bedroom, thinking I had to do with some drunken reveller who might be noisy.