Explore Wassail through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like punch or salute. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Wassail meaning
- A toast to health, usually on a festive occasion.
- The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples, etc.
- Revelry.
Synonyms of Wassail
Using Wassail
- The main meaning on this page is: A toast to health, usually on a festive occasion. | The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples, etc. | Revelry.
- Useful related words include: punch, salute, pledge, drink.
- In the example corpus, wassail often appears in combinations such as: annual wassail.
Context around Wassail
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wassail
- In this selection, "wassail" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tree, quirky, enjoy, bowl, means and festivities stand out and add context to how "wassail" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a quirky wassail event which and apple tree wassail is based. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wassail" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wassail
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Wassail means "be in good health". (6 words)
Dancing, singing and colourful costumes will bring Glasgow to life as Wassail festivities take place this weekend. (17 words)
The National Trust for Jersey is inviting islanders to join the annual Wassail Festival between midday until 4 pm. (19 words)
Last month, the farm hosted a quirky Wassail event which saw a huge turnout of people singing songs, rattling pans and putting toast in trees in the hope that the trees will provide a bountiful harvest in the autumn. (39 words)
Visitors will enjoy Wassail, a hot cider punch; live music; and a taste of Peppermint Pig, the only Victorian Christmas tradition originating in the U.S. In addition, each year, there is always new exhibit in the middle parlor. (39 words)
A mummers play mentioned in The Book of Days (1864) opened with "Old Father Christmas, bearing, as emblematic devices, the holly bough, wassail-bowl, &c". citation The online version is the 1888 reprint. (33 words)
Example sentences (10)
Wassail means "be in good health".
Based at the Folk of Gloucester on Westgate Street, the Apple Tree Wassail is based on a tradition that goes back centuries.
Dancing, singing and colourful costumes will bring Glasgow to life as Wassail festivities take place this weekend.
Last month, the farm hosted a quirky Wassail event which saw a huge turnout of people singing songs, rattling pans and putting toast in trees in the hope that the trees will provide a bountiful harvest in the autumn.
The wassailers were led by Mark Bamforth with Wassail Queen Alison Ainge carrying out the watering - or cidering - of an apple tree.
Visitors will enjoy Wassail, a hot cider punch; live music; and a taste of Peppermint Pig, the only Victorian Christmas tradition originating in the U.S. In addition, each year, there is always new exhibit in the middle parlor.
They also have a 19-proof hard cider called Pommaux that isn't exactly liquor — but it is great for making an interesting twist on the Wassail-type hot-spiced holiday mug.
Father Christmas, ‘ivy crown’d’, sits in front of the wassail bowl and is surrounded by mummers (the Dragon and St George sit side by side) and local people.
The National Trust for Jersey is inviting islanders to join the annual Wassail Festival between midday until 4 pm.
A mummers play mentioned in The Book of Days (1864) opened with "Old Father Christmas, bearing, as emblematic devices, the holly bough, wassail-bowl, &c". citation The online version is the 1888 reprint.
Common combinations with wassail
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: