MERRYMAKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does merrymaking mean? 

• MERRYMAKING (noun)
  The noun MERRYMAKING has 1 sense:

1. a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERRYMAKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A boisterous celebration; a merry festivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conviviality; jollification; merrymaking

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

celebration; festivity (any joyous diversion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "merrymaking"):

high jinks; high jinx; hijinks; jinks (noisy and mischievous merrymaking)

revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)

Derivation:

make merry (celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities)

 Context examples 

He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Oh, dear, how hard it does seem to take up our packs and go on, sighed Meg the morning after the party, for now the holidays were over, the week of merrymaking did not fit her for going on easily with the task she never liked.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)