merrymaking

merrymaking
n
1. festivity, festival, celebration, wing-ding; gaiety, merriment, convivality, revelry, revels, jollification, hilarity, mirth, glee, jollity, sport; fun, fun-making, Inf. whoopee, Inf. whoop-de-doo, Inf. hoopla; antics, capers, Sl. high jinks.
2. carousal, bacchanal, bacchanalia; debauch, debauchery, saturnalia.
adj
3. festive, convivial, joyous, merry, mirthful, gleeful; gay, sportive, fun-making, uproarious, jovial, jolly, good-time; festal, festival, holiday.

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