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convivial
/kənˈvɪviəl/
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What does convivial mean?
adjective
- Having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity
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IPA pronunciation
/kənˈvɪviəl/
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At this date there prevailed in Casterbridge a convivial custom—scarcely recognized as such, yet none the less established.
How could he forget that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been guilty of some murderous, convivial indiscretions.
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A party of convivial musicians, next door to a friend of mine, hung suspended in this manner on the brink of their diversions.
The larger and more loaded the orchard, the more frequently the invitations went round and the higher the social and convivial spirit ran.
"Griff," as Evans is called, is short and small, and is hospitable, careless, reckless, jolly, social, convivial, peppery, good natured, "nobody's enemy but his own."