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# revel

«revel» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take part in noisy fun such as feasting, drinking and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (revel, revels, revelled, revelling; US reveled) ; noun (revels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To revel is to take part in noisy fun such as feasting, drinking and dancing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revel/#m1)

2) To revel in something is to enjoy it very much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales people drink, feast and dance late into the night; «revel in» means to take great delight in something

### examples

- They arrived at a dwelling and there they drank and revelled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revel/#x1)
- The Warlock drank and revelled all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revel/#x2)
- She revelled in the praise she got. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revel/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «revel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.