bacchanal
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9.9
A person who joins wild parties and drinks too much
- noun
- /ˈbækəˌnæl/
- Literature
:
bacanal
- Titian's Bacchanal.
Examples
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After a long week, they decided to throw a bacchanal filled with laughter, music, and plenty of drinks.
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The Bacchanal were ancient Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Greco-Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication, and ecstasy.
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The party turned into a wild bacchanal with everyone dancing and celebrating until dawn.
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The festival was known for its bacchanal atmosphere, drawing revelers from all over the city.
Synonyms
9.9
A person who joins wild, noisy parties and often gets drunk
is the same meaning but an alternate form of the word
drunken reveler
vsbacchanal
7.2
A person who celebrates wildly while drunk
focuses on taking part in wild drunken revelry rather than only intoxication
9.5
A person who enjoys loud, lively drinking parties
implies more extreme wild and heavily drunken behavior
Antonyms
How Wild
Surface Forms
bacchanal singular
bacchanals plural
Etymology
Bacchanal comes from Bacchus, the Roman 'wine god', and it first meant someone who joined his wild festivals, so a Bacchanal is a person who takes part in noisy, drunken partying.