"wassail" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈwɑseɪl/ [General-American], /ˈwɒseɪl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwɒsl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwæsl/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-wassail.ogg [US] Forms: wassails [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑseɪl, -ɒseɪl, -ɒsəl, -æsəl Etymology: From Middle English wassail, from Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), from the imperative of vesa (“to be”) + heill (“healthy”). The earliest documented use of the term is from the first part of the 12th century CE, in Geoffroy of Monmounth's Historia Regum Britanniae (see page's citations). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|wassail}} Middle English wassail, {{der|en|non|ves heill||be healthy!}} Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), {{m|non|vesa||to be}} vesa (“to be”), {{m|non|heill||healthy}} heill (“healthy”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wassail (countable and uncountable, plural wassails)
  1. A toast to health, usually on a festive occasion. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-wassail-en-noun-SnDFvsC5
  2. The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples, etc. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Alcoholic beverages Translations (beverage served during a wassail): Glühwein (German), Glühbier (German), Glühmost (German), ευωχία (evochía) [feminine] (Greek), gwirod [feminine, masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-wassail-en-noun-x1fh95ge Disambiguation of Alcoholic beverages: 6 26 18 19 17 3 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 18 24 21 21 1 13 Disambiguation of 'beverage served during a wassail': 2 81 7 9
  3. Revelry. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-wassail-en-noun-27zLVLbq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 18 24 21 21 1 13
  4. A festive or drinking song or glee. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-wassail-en-noun-PDjgwWkk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 18 24 21 21 1 13
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wasseil

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈwɑseɪl/ [General-American], /ˈwɒseɪl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwɒsl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈwæsl/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-wassail.ogg [US] Forms: wassails [present, singular, third-person], wassailing [participle, present], wassailed [participle, past], wassailed [past]
Rhymes: -ɑseɪl, -ɒseɪl, -ɒsəl, -æsəl Etymology: From Middle English wassail, from Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), from the imperative of vesa (“to be”) + heill (“healthy”). The earliest documented use of the term is from the first part of the 12th century CE, in Geoffroy of Monmounth's Historia Regum Britanniae (see page's citations). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|wassail}} Middle English wassail, {{der|en|non|ves heill||be healthy!}} Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), {{m|non|vesa||to be}} vesa (“to be”), {{m|non|heill||healthy}} heill (“healthy”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} wassail (third-person singular simple present wassails, present participle wassailing, simple past and past participle wassailed)
  1. (transitive) To toast, to drink to the health of another. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-wassail-en-verb-IfKT3Qu7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 18 24 21 21 1 13
  2. (intransitive) To drink wassail. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-wassail-en-verb-xD3rA9xy
  3. To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols. Synonyms (go from house to house, singing carols): carol
    Sense id: en-wassail-en-verb-KWmlzjv8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 18 24 21 21 1 13 Disambiguation of 'go from house to house, singing carols': 5 0 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: wasseil Related terms: hail, Wassail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Inflected forms

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      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑseɪl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒseɪl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒsəl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æsəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-wassail.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4a/En-us-wassail.ogg/En-us-wassail.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/En-us-wassail.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wasseil"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "beverage served during a wassail",
      "word": "Glühwein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "beverage served during a wassail",
      "word": "Glühbier"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "beverage served during a wassail",
      "word": "Glühmost"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "evochía",
      "sense": "beverage served during a wassail",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ευωχία"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "beverage served during a wassail",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gwirod"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Historia Regum Britanniae"
  ],
  "word": "wassail"
}

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    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old Norse",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/æsəl",
    "Rhymes:English/æsəl/1 syllable",
    "Rhymes:English/ɑseɪl",
    "Rhymes:English/ɑseɪl/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒseɪl",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒseɪl/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒsəl",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒsəl/1 syllable",
    "en:Alcoholic beverages"
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "wassail"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "ves heill",
        "4": "",
        "5": "be healthy!"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "vesa",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to be"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "heill",
        "3": "",
        "4": "healthy"
      },
      "expansion": "heill (“healthy”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English wassail, from Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), from the imperative of vesa (“to be”) + heill (“healthy”). The earliest documented use of the term is from the first part of the 12th century CE, in Geoffroy of Monmounth's Historia Regum Britanniae (see page's citations).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wassails",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wassailing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wassailed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "past"
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    }
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      "expansion": "wassail (third-person singular simple present wassails, present participle wassailing, simple past and past participle wassailed)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hail"
    },
    {
      "word": "Wassail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The next morning he much regretted the gusto with which he had wassailed the night before."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To toast, to drink to the health of another."
      ],
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        [
          "toast",
          "toast"
        ],
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) To toast, to drink to the health of another."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To drink wassail."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To drink wassail."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002 February 21, Christopher Morley, “Culture: Children carry a torch for carol king; John Joubert will be 75 next month”, in The Birmingham Post",
          "text": "Schoolchildren around the globe have gleefully sung Torches at Christmastime for half a century. Many of those in Birmingham have wassailed the carol at the front door of a cosy Victorian house in Moseley, unaware that behind that front door lives its composer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Ronald M. Clancy, Best-Loved Christmas Carols: The Stories Behind Twenty-Five Yuletide Favorites, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., published 2006, page 81",
          "text": "During the Christmas season, carolers traveled from house to house, bringing good wishes and carrying an empty bowl. The master of the house being wassailed was expected to fill the bowl with hot, spicy ale.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 26, Burton Cole, “Holiday mysteries to roast in your wassail”, in Tribune Chronicle",
          "text": "\"I wish someone would come to my house and wassail!\" Jessica P. of Howland said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols."
      ],
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        [
          "Christmastime",
          "Christmastime"
        ],
        [
          "carols",
          "carols"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɑseɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɒseɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwɒsl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwæsl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑseɪl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒseɪl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒsəl"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æsəl"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-wassail.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/En-us-wassail.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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    {
      "sense": "go from house to house, singing carols",
      "word": "carol"
    },
    {
      "word": "wasseil"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Historia Regum Britanniae"
  ],
  "word": "wassail"
}

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