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Definitions for: 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"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchant, bacchic, carousing, debauch, debauchery, drunk, drunken reveler, drunken reveller, drunken revelry, inebriated, intoxicated, orgiastic, orgy, riot, saturnalia
See Also: afficionado, buff, devotee, drinker, fan, imbiber, juicer, lover, revel, revelry, toper
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