bacchanal - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Latin Bacchānālis (“of or pertaining to Bacchus”). See Bacchanalia.
bacchanal (comparative more bacchanal, superlative most bacchanal)
- Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):
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.
bacchanal (plural bacchanals)
- A devotee of Bacchus.
- Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
The riot of the tipsie Bachanals
- (in the plural) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
- Drunken revelry; an orgy.
- A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
- (Trinidad and Tobago, informal) drama, ruckus, fiasco
devotee of Bacchus
drunken revelry; an orgy
song or dance in honor of Bacchus
bacchanal m (plural bacchanals)
- “bacchanal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.