English dictionary
bacchanal
/,b/A/k/@/'n/A/l/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
adjective
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Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
Source: webster1913
noun
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someone who engages in drinking bouts
Source: WordNet 3.0
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a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
Synonyms bacchantSource: WordNet 3.0
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a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Source: WordNet 3.0
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A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.
Source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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used of riotously drunken merrymaking
ExamplesA night of bacchanalian revelry.
Source: WordNet 3.0