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Jubilee vs Revelry - What's the difference?

jubilee | revelry | Related terms |

Jubilee is a related term of revelry.


As a verb jubilee

is .

As a noun revelry is

joyful merry-making.

jubilee

English

(wikipedia jubilee)

Alternative forms

* jubile

Noun

(en noun)
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 120:
    • in the old Israel, there had supposedly been a system of ‘Jubilee ’, a year in which all land should go back to the family to which it had originally belonged and during which all slaves should be released.
  • A fiftieth anniversary.
  • (Catholicism) A special year (originally held every hundred years, then fifty, and then fewer) in which remission from sin could be granted as well as indulgences upon making a pilgrimage to Rome.
  • A time of celebration or rejoicing.
  • (obsolete) A period of fifty years; a half-century.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.5:
    • How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede [...] that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.

    Derived terms

    * silver jubilee

    References

    revelry

    English

    Noun

    (revelries)
  • Joyful merry-making.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.

    Synonyms

    * celebration, festivity, revelment

    Derived terms

    * revelrous