bacchanal
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See also: Bacchanal
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Bacchānālis (“of or pertaining to Bacchus”). See Bacchanalia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bacchanal (comparative more bacchanal, superlative most bacchanal)
- Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
- 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, (please specify the stanza number):
- Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes / In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, / Purple and gushing […]
- Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]relating to Bacchus or his festival
engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy
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Noun
[edit]bacchanal (plural bacchanals)
- A devotee of Bacchus.
- Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- The riot of the tipsie Bachanals
- (in the plural) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
- Drunken revelry; an orgy.
- A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
- (Trinidad and Tobago, informal) drama, ruckus, fiasco
Translations
[edit]devotee of Bacchus
festival of Bacchus
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drunken revelry; an orgy
song or dance in honor of Bacchus
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French
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Noun
[edit]bacchanal m (plural bacchanals)
Further reading
[edit]- “bacchanal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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