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Noun: bacchant (bacchantes,bacchants)  ba-kunt
  1. Someone who engages in drinking bouts
    - drunken reveler [US], drunken reveller, bacchanal
     
  2. A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
    - bacchanal
     
  3. (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus

Derived forms: bacchantes, bacchants

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

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