bacchanal meaning and definition

BACCHANAL noun

Definition of bacchanal (noun)

1. someone who engages in drinking bouts
   • synonyms: bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller
2. a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
   • synonyms: bacchant
3. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
   • synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia

BACCHANAL adjective

Definition of bacchanal (adjective)

1. used of riotously drunken merrymaking
   • "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
   • synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic