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1. Used of riotously drunken merrymaking
   "a night of bacchanal revelry";
   - bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic

1. Someone who engages in drinking bouts
   - drunken reveler [US], drunken reveller, bacchant
    
2. A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
   - bacchant
    
3. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
   - orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot [archaic], bacchanalia, drunken revelry

Derived forms: bacchanals

See also: drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]

Type of: buff, devotee, drinker, fan, imbiber, juicer, lover, revel, revelry, soak [informal], sponge [informal], toper

Encyclopedia: Bacchanal