ORGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orgy mean? 

• ORGY (noun)
  The noun ORGY has 3 senses:

1. any act of immoderate indulgence

2. secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity

3. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

  Familiarity information: ORGY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any act of immoderate indulgence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

binge; orgy; splurge

Context example:

a splurge of spending

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

humoring; indulgence; indulging; pampering (the act of indulging or gratifying a desire)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

religious rite; rite (an established ceremony prescribed by a religion)

Derivation:

orgiastic (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)

orgiastic (used of frenzied sexual activity)

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

revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)

Derivation:

orgiastic (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)

orgiastic (used of frenzied sexual activity)

 Context examples 

He was brown, deep brown, red-brown, an orgy of browns.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and shattered, in the evening.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a mad orgy of imagination, wassailing in the skull of a dying man who half sobbed under his breath and was quick with the wild flutter of fading heart-beats.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To hear Barillo sing a love passage with the voice of an angel, and to hear Tetralani reply like another angel, and to hear it all accompanied by a perfect orgy of glowing and colorful music—is ravishing, most ravishing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)