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Found 2 items, similar to bacchanalia.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Bacchanalia
Bacchanalia
n 1: an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus
(= Bacchus) [syn:
Dionysia]
2: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and
promiscuity [syn:
orgy,
debauch,
debauchery,
saturnalia,
riot,
bacchanal,
drunken revelry]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bacchanalia
Bacchanalia
\Bac`cha*na"li*a\ (b[a^]k`k[.a]*n[=a]"l[i^]*[.a]),
n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl.
Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine,
Gr. Ba`kchos.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy.
[1913 Webster]
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