Definitions
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Word origin
From Middle English riot (“debauched living, dissipation”), from Old French riote (“debate”), from rioter (“to quarrel”), perhaps related to riboter or from Latin rugio (“to roar”).
Used in a sentence
“The protests began peacefully but turned into riots after several days.”
“In summer this flower garden is a riot of colour.”
“The human world is contracting not only prospectively but to the backward-probing eye of culture-history. Nevertheless we are as yet far from able to reduce the riot of spoken languages to a small number of “stocks.””
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Violent disturbance”4 letters
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