Definition of bacchanalia

Overview of noun bacchanalia

The noun bacchanalia has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. Dionysia, Bacchanalia

(an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus))

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

(a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity)