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BACCHANAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bacchanal mean?
• BACCHANAL (noun)
The noun BACCHANAL has 3 senses:
1. someone who engages in drinking bouts
2. a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
3. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Familiarity information: BACCHANAL used as a noun is uncommon.
• BACCHANAL (adjective)
The adjective BACCHANAL has 1 sense:
1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking
Familiarity information: BACCHANAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who engages in drinking bouts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bacchanal; bacchant; drunken reveler; drunken reveller
Hypernyms ("bacchanal" is a kind of...):
drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper (a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bacchanal; bacchant
Hypernyms ("bacchanal" is a kind of...):
buff; devotee; fan; lover (an ardent follower and admirer)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
bacchanal; bacchanalia; debauch; debauchery; drunken revelry; orgy; riot; saturnalia
Hypernyms ("bacchanal" is a kind of...):
revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)
Derivation:
bacchanal; bacchanalian (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking
Synonyms:
bacchanal; bacchanalian; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic
Context example:
orgiastic festivity
Similar:
drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))
Derivation:
bacchanal (a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity)
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