carousing
/kɚˈaʊzɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.
noun
Example Sentences
- "I remember I was once of a party of between twenty and thirty officers, from a squadron of four or five line-of-battle ships, and some smaller vessels, which met together at a tavern at St. Pierre's, Martinico, when a carousing scene took place, so characteristically unique, that it would require the pen of Scott, or the pencil of Cruikshank , to do it justice."
- "A carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized."
- "A carousing group is almost always exclusively made up of men who are, more often than not, close in age, social position, and economic status."
- "the wild carousings of drunken revellers"