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Definition of carousal :
A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.
Synonyms:
toot, bat, curve, Drugs, drunk, binge, carouse, merriment, restraint, curve ball, carnival, booze, jag, booze-up, brannigan, tear, bender, breaking ball, frolic
celebration (part of speech: noun)
glee, ceremony, commemoration, acclamation, commencement, inauguration, feast, observance, exultation, festivity, merry-making, holiday, jubilee, joy, ovation, convocation, salute, memorialization, ritual, praise, honor, revelry, jubilation, remembrance, elation, rejoicing, glorification, celebration, spree, proclamation
intemperance (part of speech: noun)
excessiveness, luxury, debauchery, sensuality, intemperance, drunkenness, dissipation, self-indulgence, indulgence, orgy
Usage examples:
- Three years of folly, passed without profit, had but given me rooted habits of vice, and added, in a somewhat unusual degree, to my bodily stature, when, after a week of soulless dissipation, I invited a small party of the most dissolute students to a secret carousal in my chambers. - "Selections From Poe", J. Montgomery Gambrill.
- On the wall are two old paintings of Faust's carousal and his ride out of the door on a cask. - "Faust", Goethe.
- All was noise, confusion, life at high pressure, and made a fit surrounding for his coming carousal; and here was all the liquor he could hope to drink, of better quality and at better prices, guarantees of which, in the persons of numerous passers- by, he saw on many sides. - "Bring Me His Ears", Clarence E. Mulford.