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Bacchanal

Bacchanal Definition And Meaning
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"chanal\, a. [L. Bacchanalis. See {Bacchanalia}.] 1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival. 2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy. \Bac"chanal\, 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.

Bacchanal Definition And Meaning

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"

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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