Bacchanalian

Definition: Bacchanalian

Bacchanalian

Adjective

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

Date "bacchanalian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1833. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Bacchanalian Drunken, rollicksome, devoted or pertaining to Bacchus (q.v.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bacchanalian

Synonyms: bacchanal (adj), bacchic (adj), carousing (adj), orgiastic (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bacchanalian

English words defined with "bacchanalian": bacchanal, bacchantic, bacchic ♦ carousing ♦ orgiastic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bacchanalian": King of Misrule. (references)

"Bacchanalian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bacchanalian" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	6	143,867

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.

Language		Translations for "bacchanalian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i orgjisë, i ahengut (bacchanal). (various references)

Arabic		‏معربد (raving), ‏حفلة عربدة و تهتك, ‏سكير (alcoholic, blind drunk, drinker, drunk, drunken, hard drinker, heavy, rummy). (various references)

Bulgarian		вакханален (bacchanal, bacchic), буен (blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi). (various references)

French		bachique (bacchanal, bacchic). (various references)

German		bacchantisch. (various references)

Greek		βακχικόσ (bacchanal, saturnallian). (various references)

Hebrew		מת�"ולל (dissolute, reveller). (various references)

Hungarian		duhaj (obstreperous, rambunctious, rumbustious, turbulent). (various references)

Italian		baccanale - festa pagana. (various references)

Pig Latin		acchanalianbay.(various references)

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

Romanian		beţiv (alcoholic, bacchanal, bibber, boozer, boozy, debauchee, drunkard, guzzler, inebriate, intemperate, lush, reveller, sot, sponge, tippler, winebag), bahic (bacchanal, bacchic), de chef (convivial), de beţie, de bacanalã, chefliu (bacchanal, boozer, carouser, drinker, elevated, jolly, merry maker, racketeer, reveller, rioter, rip, tippler, trump). (various references)

Russian		разгульный (rackety), вакханальный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		učesnik u bahanalijama. (various references)

Spanish		bacanal (bacchanal, bacchanalia, saturnalia), bacanálico, báquico (bacchanal, bacchic). (various references)

Swedish		backanalisk (bacchanal). (various references)

Turkish		içki alemi türünden (bacchant), içki alemi (bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanals, binge, booze, carousal, drinking bout, drunk, jag, souse, wassail). (various references)

Ukranian		розгульний (bacchanal, bacchic, orgiastic, roaring), вакхічний (bacchic), вакханальний (bacchanal). (various references)

Vietnamese		người say rượu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bacchanalian": bacchanalians. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bacchanalian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baccanalia, bacchanalain, bacchanallan, bacchanilian, bacchinalia, bacchnalian, bachanalia, bachanallia, bachannalia, bachinalia, becchanalian. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-b-c-c-h-i-l-n-n"
	-1 letter: bacchanalia.
	-3 letters: bacchanal.
	-4 letters: cannabic, cannibal.
	-5 letters: clachan.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-b-c-c-h-i-l-n-n"
	+1 letter: bacchanalians.
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