Found 2 items, similar to Bacchants.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bacchant
bacchant
n 1: someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn:
drunken reveler,
drunken reveller,
bacchanal]
2: a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn:
bacchanal]
3: (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus
[also:
bacchantes (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bacchants
Bacchant
\Bac"chant\, n.; pl. E.
Bacchants, L.
Bacchantes.
[L. bacchans, -antis, p. pr. of bacchari to celebrate the
festival of Bacchus.]
1. A priest of Bacchus.
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2. A bacchanal; a reveler. --Croly.
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