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carousing

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Carousing is drinking, feasting, and making loud, lively merriment, often in a disorderly group; the term can suggest celebration, excess, or reckless revelry.

Detailed Definition
Carousing means spending time in boisterous drinking or festive revelry. In older literary English, it often suggests a social scene of heavy drinking rather than simple enjoyment.
Example
Example in poetry:
“I have been laughing, I have been carousing,” presents carousing as noisy, sustained revelry; “They were carousing till dawn beside the quay,” gives the verb a social setting; In older lyric, carousing may celebrate wine, fellowship, and excess; “While others caroused online, she listened for the last train,” updates the contrast between festivity and solitude
Additional Notes
The word in the line is a less common literary verb, and many readers may not know that "carousing" means boisterous drinking or revelry.; Found in the poem, The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb
Also Known As
reveling frolicking debauchery
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