Bacchanal Definition
bacchanal
adjective
- used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
noun
- someone who engages in drinking bouts
- a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
- a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Words that rhyme with bacchanal
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