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Bacchanal Common

Origin: Latin suffix -al

Bacchanal has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

someone who engages in drinking bouts

2

a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus

3

a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

4

A devotee of Bacchus.

Adjective
1

used of riotously drunken merrymaking

"a night of bacchanalian revelry"

"carousing bands of drunken soldiers"

"orgiastic festivity"

2

Relating to Bacchus or his festival.

3

Alternative form of bacchanal

Example Sentences
"a night of bacchanalian revelry" adjective
"carousing bands of drunken soldiers" adjective
"orgiastic festivity" adjective
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
drinker fan revel
Rhyming Words
nal unal anal enal binal ianal fanal genal penal conal winal final monal manal gonal dunal zonal venal banal tonal
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