BACCHANALIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Bacchanalia mean? • BACCHANALIA (noun)
The noun BACCHANALIA has 2 senses:
1. an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)
2. a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Familiarity information: BACCHANALIA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BACCHANALIA (noun)
Meaning:
An orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
Bacchanalia; Dionysia
Hypernyms ("Bacchanalia" is a kind of...):
festival; fete (an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place))
Meaning:
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
debauch; debauchery; drunken revelry; bacchanalia; saturnalia; bacchanal; orgy; riot
Hypernyms ("bacchanalia" is a kind of...):
revel; revelry (unrestrained merrymaking)
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