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单词 merrymaking
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Definition of merrymaking in English:

merrymaking

noun ˈmɛrɪmeɪkɪŋˈmɛriˌmeɪkɪŋ
mass noun
  • Fun; festivity.

    I'd had my fill of merrymaking and decided to stay put till my headache eased
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His earlier genre scenes concentrate on peasants merrymaking or brawling in houses, taverns, or barns.
    • I've hardly known a bloke who did not like the merrymaking, that Christimas epitomises.
    • The wider feelings of distrust or dislike for the Irish harbored by some passengers on board were concentrated in the disapproval of their dancing and general merrymaking.
    • After an evening of requisite merrymaking, I eventually summoned forth the energy to stumble out of bed the next day and wander the short distance from my hotel to the event grounds.
    • He heard a few reactionary mutterings of disappointment amongst the barflies; staff smashing glasses was the height of sophisticated merrymaking after a certain volume of arm-bending.
    • More ceilidh dancing, drinking and merrymaking.
    • For that authentic, sweaty, draft-drenched night-at-the-Commie experience, you're ironically advised to consider the Sidetrack Café for your New Year's merrymaking.
    • While our brothers and sisters in Aceh were experiencing a great calamity, some of us were indulging in convivial merrymaking at luxury hotels on New Year's Eve.
    • Finally, scholars trace the ‘Santa Claus’ story to an incident in which an intoxicated Saint Nicholas returned home after a winter's night of merrymaking, surprised to find his house keys no longer worked.
    • Call it the urge to shake a leg or a penchant for merrymaking or an ideal mix of fun and entertainment.
    • The juxtaposition of a park for merrymaking alongside a park designed to evoke a sense of debt owed past sacrifice accounted for the shrine's broad-based appeal.
    • I tell them to celebrate widely, and I ask the police not to lock them up just because they are merrymaking.
    • I can not believe a nation as addicted to drinking, hunting, fighting and riotous merrymaking as the English didn't have some rousing folk music in the past.
    • More raucous merrymaking took place in public spaces as artisans and farmers raised liberty poles and enlisted men fired thirteen-gun salutes.
    • Throughout the European countryside, the culmination of harvest season has always been a cue for thanksgiving and merrymaking, a time to kill the fatted calf, crack open a few bottles, have a dance and get seasonally sloshed.
    • It was supposed to contain not a jot of propaganda, to be all sheer art, merrymaking, and the euphoria of proud toil.
    • In three decades of celebrations, friendly gatherings, bashes, and general merrymaking, I've never experienced anything quite like it.
    • Which is reason enough to celebrate, although it has taken awhile for the members of Radke's bargaining team to climb on board for the merrymaking.
    • None of the merrymaking warriors is looking towards where a long column of tiny figures is stealthily descending upon them.
    • Nozomi will bear no grudge; for it detracts from his happiness and capacity for merrymaking.
    • Little did the complacent Bezirk know that West German accounts of the very same meetings spoke of laughter, merrymaking and private house parties.
    • Em was not isolated from the merrymaking - against her will, of course.
    • But all the merrymaking ends when the trial begins.
    • Few of us sit down every day, as they do across much of Europe, for a relaxing family meal that could take up to three hours of fun-filled banter and merrymaking to consume.
    • The hours of merrymaking and celebration had stretched late the night before, and she suspected there would be more than one person who took carris seed before the ceremony.
    • They also abandoned whole towns to go merrymaking.
    • Yet the din emanating from the country's corporate boardrooms is not that of clinking champagne glasses and boisterous merrymaking.
    • This is most evident in the second movement, described as having ‘a sense of animation and urgency’ which feels more like merrymaking under duress.
    • General merrymaking on the second day of Easter includes the rolling of Easter eggs, games to test one's strength, and swinging on swings.
    • Christmas trees, lights, candles, trimmings and turkeys will be among the things turning seasonal merrymaking into misery and mayhem for Swindon families over the holiday period.
    • All around me, the merrymaking sounds of the party continued on, but I was oblivious.
    • Large inset windows reveal generic scenes of merrymaking inside the pub.
    • Peals of laughter and merrymaking yelled out through the wood door.
    • I broke my tune, and raised my head in the merrymaking's direction.
    • On Friday the Museum of Richmond hosts Come Forth and Play, a look at engravings of merrymaking, playing Tudor games and making a Nine Men's Morris.
    • So the goofy Greeks decorated their merrymaking in pretty bows and successfully sublimated their impulses with constrictive ceremonial routines.
    • The Ati-atihan festival in honor of Santo Nino, one of the most revered Roman Catholic icons in the Philippines, was stopped, turning merrymaking into mourning for the victims.
    • Participating in the merrymaking occurs amongst all regardless if one is employed or unemployed.
    • We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture.
    • In all of this merrymaking, I cannot overlook the meticulous research into instruments and music that preludes such an undertaking.
    Synonyms
    high spirits, high-spiritedness, exuberance

Derivatives

  • merrymaker

  • noun ˈmɛrɪˌmeɪkəˈmɛriˌmeɪkər
    • Yes, he would have been appalled by Costa's coppers and their sniffing dogs waylaying merrymakers in Taylor Square, but his outrage would not have stopped there.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Intrepid merrymakers from across Kerry recently jetted off to enjoy the holiday of a lifetime that seemed to combine the very best elements of festive fairytales, seasonal songs and Christmas movies.
      • There have been times, at social functions and over drinks, when the Professor has advanced this view, and Scott's post brings the memory of fellow merrymakers ' reactions into focus.
      • This is beamed particularly at the over 25 age group and merrymakers should dress as the favourite infamous gangsters and molls from the movies.
      • We were sorry it was not a clearer or a warmer night for this trip - the only eventful part was the Christmas cheer of the non-climbing merrymakers.
 
 

Definition of merrymaking in US English:

merrymaking

nounˈmɛriˌmeɪkɪŋˈmerēˌmākiNG
  • The process of enjoying oneself with others, especially by dancing and drinking.

    I'd had my fill of merrymaking and decided to stay put till my headache eased
    Example sentencesExamples
    • On Friday the Museum of Richmond hosts Come Forth and Play, a look at engravings of merrymaking, playing Tudor games and making a Nine Men's Morris.
    • The juxtaposition of a park for merrymaking alongside a park designed to evoke a sense of debt owed past sacrifice accounted for the shrine's broad-based appeal.
    • For that authentic, sweaty, draft-drenched night-at-the-Commie experience, you're ironically advised to consider the Sidetrack Café for your New Year's merrymaking.
    • I can not believe a nation as addicted to drinking, hunting, fighting and riotous merrymaking as the English didn't have some rousing folk music in the past.
    • Few of us sit down every day, as they do across much of Europe, for a relaxing family meal that could take up to three hours of fun-filled banter and merrymaking to consume.
    • The hours of merrymaking and celebration had stretched late the night before, and she suspected there would be more than one person who took carris seed before the ceremony.
    • Which is reason enough to celebrate, although it has taken awhile for the members of Radke's bargaining team to climb on board for the merrymaking.
    • But all the merrymaking ends when the trial begins.
    • More ceilidh dancing, drinking and merrymaking.
    • While our brothers and sisters in Aceh were experiencing a great calamity, some of us were indulging in convivial merrymaking at luxury hotels on New Year's Eve.
    • This is most evident in the second movement, described as having ‘a sense of animation and urgency’ which feels more like merrymaking under duress.
    • Christmas trees, lights, candles, trimmings and turkeys will be among the things turning seasonal merrymaking into misery and mayhem for Swindon families over the holiday period.
    • Nozomi will bear no grudge; for it detracts from his happiness and capacity for merrymaking.
    • He heard a few reactionary mutterings of disappointment amongst the barflies; staff smashing glasses was the height of sophisticated merrymaking after a certain volume of arm-bending.
    • More raucous merrymaking took place in public spaces as artisans and farmers raised liberty poles and enlisted men fired thirteen-gun salutes.
    • The Ati-atihan festival in honor of Santo Nino, one of the most revered Roman Catholic icons in the Philippines, was stopped, turning merrymaking into mourning for the victims.
    • Yet the din emanating from the country's corporate boardrooms is not that of clinking champagne glasses and boisterous merrymaking.
    • Call it the urge to shake a leg or a penchant for merrymaking or an ideal mix of fun and entertainment.
    • Throughout the European countryside, the culmination of harvest season has always been a cue for thanksgiving and merrymaking, a time to kill the fatted calf, crack open a few bottles, have a dance and get seasonally sloshed.
    • Large inset windows reveal generic scenes of merrymaking inside the pub.
    • I tell them to celebrate widely, and I ask the police not to lock them up just because they are merrymaking.
    • All around me, the merrymaking sounds of the party continued on, but I was oblivious.
    • Peals of laughter and merrymaking yelled out through the wood door.
    • His earlier genre scenes concentrate on peasants merrymaking or brawling in houses, taverns, or barns.
    • They also abandoned whole towns to go merrymaking.
    • Finally, scholars trace the ‘Santa Claus’ story to an incident in which an intoxicated Saint Nicholas returned home after a winter's night of merrymaking, surprised to find his house keys no longer worked.
    • Little did the complacent Bezirk know that West German accounts of the very same meetings spoke of laughter, merrymaking and private house parties.
    • Em was not isolated from the merrymaking - against her will, of course.
    • It was supposed to contain not a jot of propaganda, to be all sheer art, merrymaking, and the euphoria of proud toil.
    • We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture.
    • None of the merrymaking warriors is looking towards where a long column of tiny figures is stealthily descending upon them.
    • General merrymaking on the second day of Easter includes the rolling of Easter eggs, games to test one's strength, and swinging on swings.
    • In three decades of celebrations, friendly gatherings, bashes, and general merrymaking, I've never experienced anything quite like it.
    • I've hardly known a bloke who did not like the merrymaking, that Christimas epitomises.
    • After an evening of requisite merrymaking, I eventually summoned forth the energy to stumble out of bed the next day and wander the short distance from my hotel to the event grounds.
    • So the goofy Greeks decorated their merrymaking in pretty bows and successfully sublimated their impulses with constrictive ceremonial routines.
    • In all of this merrymaking, I cannot overlook the meticulous research into instruments and music that preludes such an undertaking.
    • The wider feelings of distrust or dislike for the Irish harbored by some passengers on board were concentrated in the disapproval of their dancing and general merrymaking.
    • I broke my tune, and raised my head in the merrymaking's direction.
    • Participating in the merrymaking occurs amongst all regardless if one is employed or unemployed.
    Synonyms
    high spirits, high-spiritedness, exuberance
 
 
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