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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 boutsplay

2. a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchusplay

3. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuityplay

  Familiarity information: BACCHANAL used as a noun is uncommon.


BACCHANAL (adjective)
  The adjective BACCHANAL has 1 sense:

1. used of riotously drunken merrymakingplay

  Familiarity information: BACCHANAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BACCHANAL (noun)


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)


BACCHANAL (adjective)


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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