Noun: bacchanal ,ba-ku'nal
- A wild, drunken celebration or revelry
"The office Christmas party turned into a bacchanal";
- debauch, saturnalia, riot [archaic], bacchanalia, drunken revelry
- A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
"The bacchanal's raucous laughter echoed through the tavern";
- bacchant
- Someone who engages in drinking bouts
"The bacchanals stumbled out of the bar at closing time";
- drunken reveler [US], drunken reveller, bacchant
- Used of riotously drunken merrymaking
"a night of bacchanal revelry";
- bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic
Derived forms: bacchanals
See also: drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]
Type of: buff, devotee, drinker, fan, imbiber [informal], juicer [N. Amer, informal], lover, revel, revelry, soak [informal], sponge [informal], toper [literary]
Encyclopedia: Bacchanal