About The Word Bacchanal
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Bacchanal
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What's The Definition Of Bacchanal?
[n] a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
[n] a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [n] someone who engages in drinking bouts [adj] used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bacchanal: bacchanalia | bacchanalian | bacchant | bacchic | carousing | debauch | debauchery | drunk | drunken reveler | drunken reveller | drunken revelry | inebriated | intoxicated | orgiastic | orgy | riot | saturnalia Related Terms | Find terms related to Bacchanal: alcoholic | alcoholic addict | bacchanalia | bacchanalian | bat | bender | bibber | big drunk | binge | boozer | bout | bust | carousal | carouse | carouser | celebration | chronic alcoholic | chronic drunk | compotation | debauch | devotee of Bacchus | dipsomaniac | drinker | drinking bout | drunk | drunkard | drunken carousal | guzzle | guzzler | hard drinker | heavy drinker | imbiber | inebriate | jag | lovepot | oenophilist | orgy | party | pathological drinker | pot companion | potation | problem drinker | pub-crawl | reveler | saturnalia | serious drinker | shikker | soaker | social drinker | sot | spree | swigger | swiller | symposium | tear | thirsty soul | tippler | toot | toper | tosspot | wassail | wassailer | winebibber See Also | afficionado | buff | devotee | drinker | fan | imbiber | juicer | lover | revel | revelry | toper Bacchanal In Webster's Dictionary \Bac"cha*nal\, a. [L. Bacchanalis. See {Bacchanalia}.]
1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
\Bac"cha*nal\, n. 1. A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. ``Tipsy bacchanals.'' --Shak. 2. pl. The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia. 3. Drunken revelry; an orgy. 4. A song or dance in honor of Bacchus. |
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