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Definitions: Bacchanalia |
BacchanaliaNoun1. An orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus). 2. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Bacchanalia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Bacchanalia Festivals in honour of Bacchus, distinguished for their licentiousness and debauchery. Plato says he has seen the whole population of Athens drunk at these festivals. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term has since been extended to refer to any drunken revelry.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bacchanalia."
Synonyms: BacchanaliaSynonyms: bacchanal (n), debauch (n), debauchery (n), drunken revelry (n), orgy (n), riot (n), saturnalia (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Noun: drunkenness; Adjective: intemperance; drinking; Verb: inebriety, inebriation; ebriety, ebriosity; insobriety; intoxication; temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing; comtation, potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bacchanalia | 20 |
atlanta bacchanalia | 17 |
bacchanalia restaurant | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "Bacchanalia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | orgji (bacchanal, blast, debauch, high jinks, orgy, riot, rouse). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вакханалия (saturnalia), пиянска оргия. (various references) | |
German | bacchanal. (various references) | |
Greek | 'ακχεία. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bacchus-ünnep. (various references) | |
Italian | baccanali. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acchanaliabay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bebedeira (binge, drunkenness, ebriety, fuddle, guzzle, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, libation, pickle, skinful, spree, wassail), bacanalia, bacanal (bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchanals, carousal, debauch, orgy, spree). (various references) | |
Romanian | bacanale (bacchanals), bacanalã (bacchanal), petrecere (amusement, at home, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), chef (banquet, binge, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish). (various references) | |
Russian | вакханалия. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bahanalije, orgije. (various references) | |
Spanish | bacanal (bacchanal, bacchanalian, saturnalia). (various references) | |
Swedish | backanal (bacchanal). (various references) | |
Turkish | baküs şenliği (bacchanal, bacchanals), içki alemi (bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchanals, binge, booze, carousal, drinking bout, drunk, jag, souse, wassail). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вакханалія (bacchanal, saturnalia), оргія (debauch, orgy), п'яний розгул. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thầy tế thần rượu Bắc-cút người chè chén say sưa cuộc chè chén say sưa "n o điệu vũ ca ngợi thần Bắc-cút. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Bacchanalia": bacchanalian, bacchanalians, bacchanalias. (additional references) | |
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"Bacchanalia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baccanalia, bacchinalia, bachanalia, bachanallia, bachannalia, bachinalia, Satchanalai. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Bacchanalia" (pronounced ba'kunā"lyu) |
| 6 | -u n ā" l y u | paraphernalia. |
| 4 | -ā" l y u | azalea, regalia. |
| 3 | -l y u | dahlia, genitalia, magnolia, memorabilia, pedophilia. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-b-c-c-h-i-l-n" | |
-2 letters: bacchanal. | |
-4 letters: clachan. | |
-5 letters: acacia, alcaic, blanch, cabala, cabana, cancha, cicala, clinch. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-b-c-c-h-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: bacchanalian, bacchanalias. | |
+2 letters: bacchanalians. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 63 68 61 6E 61 6C 69 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.-. -.-. .... .- -. .- .-.. .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01100011 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c c h a n a l i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 0063 0068 0061 006E 0061 006C 0069 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667696974678067787567 |
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