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What is "bacchanal" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does bacchanal mean in English? Meaning of bacchanal definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "bacchanal" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "bacchanal": someone who engages in drinking bouts

Noun

  • Meaning: someone who engages in drinking bouts
  • Synonyms: bacchanal bacchant drunken reveler drunken reveller
  • Hypernyms: drinker imbiber juicer toper

    • Meaning of "bacchanal": used of riotously drunken merrymaking

    Adjective

  • Meaning: used of riotously drunken merrymaking
  • Example: a night of bacchanalian revelry carousing bands of drunken soldiers orgiastic festivity
  • Synonyms: bacchanal bacchanalian bacchic carousing orgiastic
  • Similar: drunk inebriated intoxicated

    • Meaning of "bacchanal": a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus

    Noun

  • Meaning: a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
  • Synonyms: bacchanal bacchant
  • Hypernyms: buff devotee fan lover

    • Meaning of "bacchanal": a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

    Noun

  • Meaning: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
  • Synonyms: bacchanal bacchanalia debauch debauchery drunken revelry orgy riot saturnalia
  • Hypernyms: revel revelry
  • Adjective: Relating to Bacchus or his festival. 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I: Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes / In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, / Purple and gushing [...].1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I: Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes / In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, / Purple and gushing [...].Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

    • Synonyms:

    carnival, debauch, feast, orgy, party, frolic, reveler,

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