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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats