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From Latin Bacchānālis (of or pertaining to Bacchus). See Bacchanalia.

bacchanal (comparative more bacchanal, superlative most bacchanal)

  1. 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 []

  2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

bacchanal (plural bacchanals)

  1. A devotee of Bacchus.
  2. Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
  3. (in the plural) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
  4. Drunken revelry; an orgy.
  5. A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
  6. (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)

  1. a loud, annoying noise
  2. a revolt amongst the peasantry