'Bacchanal' definitions:
Definition of 'bacchanal'
From: WordNet
adjective
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic]
noun
noun
A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: bacchant, bacchanal]
noun
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
Definition of 'Bacchanal'
From: GCIDE
- Bacchanal \Bac"cha*nal\, a. [L. Bacchanalis. See Bacchanalia.]
- 1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bacchanal'
From: GCIDE
- Bacchanal \Bac"cha*nal\ (b[a^]k"k[.a]*nal), n.
- 1. A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. "Tipsy bacchanals." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Drunken revelry; an orgy. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bacchanal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alcoholic,
- alcoholic addict,
- bacchanalia,
- bacchanalian,
- bat,
- bender,
- bibber,
- big drunk,
- binge,
- boozer,
- bout,
- bust,
- carousal,
- carouse,
- carouser,
- celebration,
- chronic alcoholic,
- chronic drunk,
- compotation,
- debauch,
- devotee of Bacchus,
- dipsomaniac,
- drinker,
- drinking bout,
- drunk,
- drunkard,
- drunken carousal,
- guzzle,
- guzzler,
- hard drinker,
- heavy drinker,
- imbiber,
- inebriate,
- jag,
- lovepot,
- oenophilist,
- orgy,
- party,
- pathological drinker,
- pot companion,
- potation,
- problem drinker,
- pub-crawl,
- reveler,
- saturnalia,
- serious drinker,
- shikker,
- soaker,
- social drinker,
- sot,
- spree,
- swigger,
- swiller,
- symposium,
- tear,
- thirsty soul,
- tippler,
- toot,
- toper,
- tosspot,
- wassail,
- wassailer,
- winebibber