The word "merriment" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a festive atmosphere or a feeling of joy and celebration. For example: "The guests enjoyed the merriment of the holiday party."
Its repositioning antics have caused merriment.
"PEOPLE of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices," noted Adam Smith, the founding father of free-market economics, in his 1776 book "The Wealth of Nations".
She provides much merriment along the way as she explores the ways professional fighters excite the imagination of writers, artists and intellectuals.Some of the sport's most pretentious followers are French intellectuals.
The building is incongruously large for a part of Russia that today, for all its macho hospitality and merriment, feels more African than European in its violence, poverty and corruption.
A proud man will often prefer to blame spirits rather than admit the more humiliating truth that, after an evening of merriment on payday, he stumbled home inebriated and penniless to find his irate wife waiting with a kitchen knife in hand.A belief in the supernatural runs deep at all levels of Kenyan society.
But some of the merriment ebbed during the press conference.
Dean Martin and Dylan Thomas would be proud.Now, since America's Transportation Security Administration TSAA) hates fun and merriment and America's airlines probably don't want you bringing your own drinks on board when you could be buying from them, it's important to be discreet about this travel tip.
Behind the merriment lies the toughest test this year of the unions' ability to force the government to back down.A law that will raise the legal minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 is going through parliament; the upper house is due to conclude its voting on the legislation next week.
This merriment is interrupted by Hal's being called to his father's aid in the war against the Welsh and the Percys.
Contests of improvisations to la bamba, widely danced in the Mexican Gulf Coast area, also contribute to the merriment of the Veracruz huapango.
Malvolio's animosity toward merriment is a challenge not only to the merrymakers but to the play's more serious characters as well; all must learn to embrace life's joys before those joys are overtaken by aging and death.
