| bacchanalia |
| bacchanalian |
| Bacchanalia | ‖n. pl. [ L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. |
| Bacchanalian | a. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. [ 1913 Webster ] Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Bacchanalian | n. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Bacchanalianism | n. The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| bacchanalian | (adj) used of riotously drunken merrymaking, Syn. bacchic, carousing, orgiastic, bacchanal, Example: a night of bacchanalian revelry; carousing bands of drunken soldiers; orgiastic festivity |
| dionysia | (n) an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus), Syn. Bacchanalia |
| orgy | (n) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity, Syn. debauchery, riot, bacchanal, drunken revelry, saturnalia, bacchanalia, debauch |