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BACCHANAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Synonyms:
bacchanal; bacchanalia; debauch; debauchery; drunken revelry; orgy; riot; saturnalia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bacchanal" is a kind of...):
revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)
Derivation:
bacchanal; bacchanalian (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
Synonyms:
bacchanal; bacchant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bacchanal" is a kind of...):
buff; devotee; fan; lover (an ardent follower and admirer)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who engages in drinking bouts
Synonyms:
bacchanal; bacchant; drunken reveler; drunken reveller
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bacchanal" is a kind of...):
drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper (a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking
Example:
orgiastic festivity
Synonyms:
bacchanal; bacchanalian; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic
Classified under:
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)
