convivial

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The Word of the Day for September 9 is: 

convivial   \kun-VIV-ee-ul\   adjective
     : relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good 
company 

Example sentence:
          Ellen and Kevin's dinner parties are always relaxed, convivial 
events, with good food in abundance, and wine and conversation both flowing 
freely.

Did you know?
          "Convivial" traces to “convivium,” a Latin word meaning "banquet,” 
and tends to suggest a mood of full-bellied joviality. Charles Dickens aptly 
captures that sense in his novel _David Copperfield_: "We had a beautiful 
little dinner. Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, 
roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding. There was wine, and 
there was strong ale.... Mr. Micawber was uncommonly convivial. I never saw him 
such good company. He made his face shine with the punch, so that it looked as 
if it had been varnished all over. He got cheerfully sentimental about the 
town, and proposed success to it."





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