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CAROUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carouse mean? 

CAROUSE (noun)
  The noun CAROUSE has 1 sense:

1. revelry in drinking; a merry drinking partyplay

  Familiarity information: CAROUSE used as a noun is very rare.


CAROUSE (verb)
  The verb CAROUSE has 1 sense:

1. engage in boisterous, drunken merrymakingplay

  Familiarity information: CAROUSE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CAROUSE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bender; booze-up; carousal; carouse; toot

Hypernyms ("carouse" is a kind of...):

revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)

Derivation:

carouse (engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking)


CAROUSE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they carouse  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it carouses  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: caroused  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: caroused  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: carousing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

carouse; riot; roister

Context example:

They were out carousing last night

Hypernyms (to "carouse" is one way to...):

jollify; make happy; make merry; make whoopie; racket; revel; wassail; whoop it up (celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

carousal; carouse (revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party)

carouser (someone who enjoys riotous drinking)


 Context examples 


One was the great fire on shore, by which the defeated pirates lay carousing in the swamp.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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