revel

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To take great pleasure or delight: She reveled in her unaccustomed leisure.
2. v. To engage in uproarious festivities; make merry.
3. n. A boisterous festivity or celebration; merrymaking. Often used in the plural.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A merrymaking; a feast or festivity characterized by boisterous jollity; a carouse; hence, mirth-making in general; revelry.
2. n. Specifically— A kind of dance or choric performance often given in connection with masques or pageants; a dancing procession or entertainment: generally used in the plural.
3. n. An anniversary festival to commemorate the dedication of a church: a wake.
4. n. Synonyms Debauch, Spree, etc. See carousal.
5. To hold or take part in revels; join in merrymaking; indulge in boisterous festivities; carouse.
6. To dance; move with a light and dancing step; frolic.
7. To act lawlessly; wanton; indulge one's inclination or caprice.
8. To take great pleasure; feel an ardent and keen enjoyment; delight.
9. To spend in revelry.
10. To draw back or away; remove.

Wiktionary

1. n. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.
2. v. To make merry; to have a gay, lively time.
3. v. obsolete To draw back; to retract.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Arch.), rare See reveal.
2. n. A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
3. v. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
4. v. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
5. v. obsolete To draw back; to retract.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. take delight in
2. n. unrestrained merrymaking
3. v. celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities