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Definition: Bacchant |
BacchantNoun1. Someone who engages in drinking bouts. 2. A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus. 3. (Greek and Roman mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bacchant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bacchant A person given to habits of drinking; so called from the "bacchants," or men admitted to the feasts of Bacchus. Bacchants wore fillets of ivy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: BacchantSynonyms: bacchanal (n), drunken reveler (n), drunken reveller (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bacchant |
| English words defined with "bacchant": Bacchantes, Bacchants. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bacchant": Debacchate. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "bacchant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | вакхант. (various references) | |
Greek | βάκχισ (bacchante), βακχεύων (bacchante), μαινάδα (bacchante, maenad). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bacchus papja. (various references) | |
Italian | baccante (bacchanal, bacchante, maenad). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acchantbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | beberrão (bum, carouser, drunkard, rummy, soaker, sot, winebag), bacante (maenad). (various references) | |
Russian | вакханка (bacchante). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bahant. (various references) | |
Swedish | backant (bacchante). (various references) | |
Turkish | baküs rahibi, sarhoş (beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), içki alemi türünden (bacchanalian), ayyaş (alcoholic, bacchanal, bibber, bibulous, boozy, dipsomaniac, dissipated, drinker, drunk, drunkard, habitual drunkard, intemperate, lush, rounder, soak, sot, sottish, souse, sponge, toper, wino). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гуляка (reveller, roisterer), поклонник бахуса (bacchanal). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bacchant": bacchante, bacchantes, bacchants. (additional references) | |
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"Bacchant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bacchi, bachian, Bakuhan, Bichat, bouchant, Fachtna. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-h-n-t" | |
-2 letters: cancha. | |
-3 letters: bacca, batch, catch, chant, natch. | |
-4 letters: acta, anta, bach, baht, bath, caca, cant, chat, hant, tach, than. | |
-5 letters: aah, aba, act, aha, ana, ant, baa, bah, ban, bat, cab, can, cat, hat, nab, nah, nth, tab, tan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-c-h-n-t" | |
+1 letter: bacchante, bacchants. | |
+2 letters: bacchantes. | |
+3 letters: uncatchable. | |
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