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Adjective

bacchanal (comparative more bacchanal, superlative most bacchanal)

  • Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
    • ✤ Sweet is the vintage, when the showering grapes/In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth,/Purple and gushing […]1
  • Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

Noun

bacchanal (plural bacchanals)

  • A devotee of Bacchus.
  • Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
    • ✤ *The riot of the tipsie Bachanals *2
  • (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

Etymology

From Latin Bacchānālis (“of or pertaining to Bacchus”). See Bacchanalia.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: băk″ə-năl′, băk″ə-näl′, băk′ə-nəl
  • (UK) IPA: /ˈbækənəl/
  • (US) IPA: /ˌbɑ kəˈnɑl/, /ˌbæk əˈnæl/, /ˈbæk ə nl/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Hyphenation: bac‧cha‧nal

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Footnotes

  1. 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I,: ↩

  2. 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,: ↩

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