Bacchanal

Definition: Bacchanal

Bacchanal

Adjective

1. Used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity".

Noun

1. Someone who engages in drinking bouts.

2. A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus.

3. A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bacchanal" was first used: 1536. (references)

Synonyms: Bacchanal

Drunkenness

Drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal, Bacchante; devotee to Bacchus; bum, guzzler, tavern haunter.

Crosswords: Bacchanal

German (bacchanalia).

Das Bacchanal des Todes (1917)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bacchanal (reference)

• The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bacchanal (reference)

• Bossa Nova Bacchanal [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

qejf ahengash, orgji (bacchanalia, blast, debauch, high jinks, orgy, riot, rouse), i ahengut (bacchanalian), aheng (beano, carousal, feast). (various references)

Arabic 

‏العربيد, ‏باخوسي منسوب إلى باخوس ملك الخمر. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разгулен (dissipated, rackety, raffish), гуляйджия (hellbender, promenader, reveller, rioter), вакханален (bacchanalian, bacchic), несдържан (incontinent, intemperate, unrestrained), необуздан (hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, vagrant, wanton, wild, zizzi), пиянски (drinking, drunken, lickerish, liquorish, sottish, vinous), пияница (alcoholic, bibber, boozer, boozy, dram-drinker, drinker, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, stew, tippler, toper, winebag, winebibber, wino). (various references)

French

bachique (bacchanalian, bacchic). (various references)

German

Bacchanalie, Orgie. (various references)

Greek 

βακχικόσ (bacchanalian, saturnallian), μέθυσοσ (bibber, inebriate, intemperate, sot, sottish, toper). (various references)

Hungarian

tivornyázó (orgiastic, reveler, reveller, roister-doister, roisterer, roistering). (various references)

Italian

baldoria (binge, carouse, good time, jamboree, jollification, merriment, merrymaking, razzle-dazzle, revel, reveling, revelling, revelry, spree), baccante (bacchant, bacchante, maenad), baccanale, orgiastico (orgiastic), orgia (orgy, profusion, riot). (various references)

Pig Latin

acchanalbay.(various references)

Portuguese

bacanal (bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, carousal, debauch, orgy, spree). (various references)

Romanian

beţiv (alcoholic, bacchanalian, bibber, boozer, boozy, debauchee, drunkard, guzzler, inebriate, intemperate, lush, reveller, sot, sponge, tippler, winebag), bahic (bacchanalian, bacchic), bacanalã (bacchanalia), zgomotos (blusterous, boisterous, clamant, clamorous, loud, noisily, noisy, obstreperous, rampageous, Randy, rattling, resoundingly, riotous, robustious, roisterer, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous, wanton), orgiac (orgiastic), membru din suitã lui bachus, cu beţie, chefliu (bacchanalian, boozer, carouser, drinker, elevated, jolly, merry maker, racketeer, reveller, rioter, rip, tippler, trump). (various references)

Russian 

вакхический (Bacchic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bahanalski (bacchic). (various references)

Spanish

bacante (bacchante), bacanal (bacchanalia, bacchanalian, saturnalia), báquico (bacchanalian, bacchic), juerguista (hellbender, merry maker, reveller), jodienda. (various references)

Swedish

backanalisk (bacchanalian). (various references)

Turkish

baküs ile ilgili (bacchis), baküs şenliği (bacchanalia, bacchanals), içki alemi (bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanals, binge, booze, carousal, drinking bout, drunk, jag, souse, wassail), ayyaş (alcoholic, bacchant, bibber, bibulous, boozy, dipsomaniac, dissipated, drinker, drunk, drunkard, habitual drunkard, intemperate, lush, rounder, soak, sot, sottish, souse, sponge, toper, wino), şarap tanrısı baküs'e tapan kimse. (various references)

Ukrainian

розгульний (bacchanalian, bacchic, orgiastic, roaring), гульвіса (merry maker, playboy), вакханальний (bacchanalian), вакханалія (bacchanalia, saturnalia), поклонник бахуса (bacchant), пияка. (various references)

bacchanalis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bacchanal": bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bacchanalians, bacchanalias, bacchanals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bacchanal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achanalt, baccanal, bacchannal, bacchinal, bachanal, bachannal, bachian, backchannel, Bickenhall, Bochenek. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: clachan.

-3 letters: blanch, cabala, cabana, cancha.

-4 letters: abaca, bacca, banal, cabal, canal, clach.

-5 letters: alan, alba, anal, baal, bach, blah, caca, clan.

+1 letter: bacchanals.

+2 letters: bacchanalia.

+3 letters: bacchanalian, bacchanalias.

+4 letters: bacchanalians.