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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. someone who engages in drinking bouts;
[syn: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant]

2. a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus;
[syn: bacchant, bacchanal]

3. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity;
[syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking;
- Example: "a night of bacchanalian revelry"
- Example: "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"
- Example: "orgiastic festivity"
[syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bacchanal adj 1: used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic] n 1: someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant] 2: a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: bacchant, bacchanal] 3: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]