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WordNet Dictionary |
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[adj] used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" |
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BACCHANALIAN is a 12 letter word that starts with B. |
| Synonyms: | | bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, orgiastic |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Bac`cha*na"li*an\, a.
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or
given to reveling and drunkenness.
Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. --Cowper.
\Bac`cha*na"li*an\, n.
A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
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