'Bacchant' definitions:

Definition of 'bacchant'

From: WordNet
noun
Someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant]
noun
A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: bacchant, bacchanal]
noun
(classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus

Definition of 'Bacchant'

From: GCIDE
  • Bacchant \Bac"chant\, a. Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. --Byron. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Bacchant'

From: GCIDE
  • Bacchant \Bac"chant\, n.; pl. E. Bacchants, L. Bacchantes. [L. bacchans, -antis, p. pr. of bacchari to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.]
  • 1. A priest of Bacchus. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A bacchanal; a reveler. --Croly. [1913 Webster]

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