carouseとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹaʊz/
  • 韻: -aʊz

動詞

carouse (三人称単数 現在形 carouses, 現在分詞 carousing, 過去形および過去分詞形 caroused)

1. (intransitive) To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering. [from 1550s]

   We are all going to carouse at Brian's tonight.

2. (intransitive) To drink to excess.

   If I survive this headache, I promise no more carousing at Brian's.

派生語

• carousal
• carrousel

名詞

carouse (複数形 carouses)

1. A large draught of liquor.
   • 1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder, page 4–5:

     […] therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies to Ilford, where I againe reſted, and was by the people of the towne and countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carowſes in the great ſpoon, one whole draught being able at that time to haue drawne my little wit drye; […]

   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene viii]:

     Had our great Pallace the capacity
     To Campe this hoaſt, we all would ſup together,
     And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate […]

   • 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

     […] he hadde ſo many eyes watching ouer him, as he coulde not drinke a full Carouſe of Sacke, but the State was aduertised thereof, within few houres after.

2. A drinking match; a carousal.
   • 1725, Homer; [William Broome], transl., “Book II”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:

     The early feast and late carouse.

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