what does bacchanal mean?
BACCHANAL as NOUN
- Meaning
- a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
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Hypernyms(s) bacchanal is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
Derived(s)
- Meaning
- a drunken reveller
- a devotee of Bacchus
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) bacchanal is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- someone who engages in drinking bouts
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) bacchanal is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
BACCHANAL as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- used of riotously drunken merrymaking
Synonym(s)
Usage Example(s)
- a night of bacchanalian revelry
- carousing bands of drunken soldiers
- orgiastic festivity
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