Associations to the word «Bacchanalian»

Wiktionary

BACCHANALIAN, adjective. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
BACCHANALIAN, noun. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
BACCHANALIAN, noun. Alternative letter-case form of Bacchanalian

Dictionary definition

BACCHANALIAN, adjective. Used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity".

Wise words

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