carousing

• Décrit une personne qui participe à une activité sociale bruyante, animée et souvent alcoolisée.

Describes someone who is engaged in noisy, lively, and often drunken social activity.

1. Drunkenly merrymakingC1informal

   Engaging in noisy, lively, and often drunken festivities or celebrations.

   faire la fête en buvant

   • The carousing crowd spilled out of the pub into the street.
   • After the victory, the team spent the night carousing in the hotel bar.
   • The carousing sailors were a common sight in the port town.

   Synonymesbacchanaliancarousalpartyingriotous

   Antonymesabstinentrestrainedsobertemperate

• Verbe désignant le fait de boire de l'alcool et de faire la fête avec d'autres de manière bruyante et animée.

A verb meaning to drink alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way.

1. Boisterous merrymakingC1formal

   To engage in lively, noisy, and often drunken celebration or partying.

   Faire la fête bruyamment

   • The sailors would carouse in the taverns after months at sea.
   • They caroused until dawn, singing and laughing loudly.
   • The festival crowd caroused through the streets with music and dancing.

   Synonymesmake merryrevelriotroisterwassail

   Antonymesgrievelamentmournsob