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BACCHANTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bacchantic mean?
• BACCHANTIC (adjective)
The adjective BACCHANTIC has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler
Familiarity information: BACCHANTIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
bacchant (a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus)
Derivation:
bacchant (a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus)
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