Definition of bacchanal

Overview of noun bacchanal

The noun bacchanal has 3 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant

(someone who engages in drinking bouts)

2. bacchant, bacchanal

(a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus)

3. orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry

(a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity)

Overview of adj bacchanal

The adj bacchanal has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic

(used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity")