bacchanal

bac·cha·nal (bk-nl, -näl, bk-nl)

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Noun	1.	bacchanal – someone who engages in drinking bouts bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller imbiber, juicer, toper, drinker – a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
	2.	bacchanal – a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus bacchant buff, devotee, lover, fan – an ardent follower and admirer
	3.	bacchanal – a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, bacchanalia, saturnalia, orgy, riot revel, revelry – unrestrained merrymaking
Adj.	1.	bacchanal – used of riotously drunken merrymaking; “a night of bacchanalian revelry”; “carousing bands of drunken soldiers”; “orgiastic festivity” bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic drunk, inebriated, intoxicated – stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); “a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors”; “helplessly inebriated”