BACCHANALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bacchanalia mean? 

• BACCHANALIA (noun)
  The noun BACCHANALIA has 2 senses:

1. an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)

2. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

  Familiarity information: BACCHANALIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACCHANALIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Bacchanalia; Dionysia

Hypernyms ("Bacchanalia" is a kind of...):

festival; fete (an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place))

Sense 2

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 ("bacchanalia" is a kind of...):

revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)