Meaning of BACCHANAL
| Pronunciation: | | `bâku'nâl
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchant, bacchic, carousing, debauch, debauchery, drunk, drunken reveler, drunken reveller, drunken revelry, inebriated, intoxicated, orgiastic, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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| | See Also: | | afficionado, buff, devotee, drinker, fan, imbiber, juicer, lover, revel, revelry, toper | |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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