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Bacchic

Definition: Bacchic

Bacchic

Adjective

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

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

Date "bacchic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Synonyms: Bacchic

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

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Crosswords: Bacchic

English words defined with "bacchic": Thyrsus. (references)
Etymologies containing "bacchic": Encomium. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bacchic

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Books

  • Bacchic Medicine: Wine and Alcohol Therapies from Napoleon to the French Paradox (Clio Medica 64) (reference)

  • Eleusinian & Bacchic Mysteries (reference)

  • Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: A Dissertation (reference)

  • Orphism and Bacchic mysteries : new evidence and old problems of interpretation : protocol of the twenty-eighth colloquy, 13 March 1977 (reference)

  • The Bacchic element in Shakespeare's plays (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Bacchic

Illustrations:
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Usage Frequency: Bacchic

"Bacchic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bacchic" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bacchic

Language Translations for "bacchic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏عربيد (becoming drunk, drunk, riotous, roisterer, roistering), ‏باخوسي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вакханален (bacchanal, bacchanalian). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مستانه وپرهیاهو, اوازمستی . (various references)

   

French

  

bachique (bacchanal, bacchanalian). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bacchusi. (various references)

   

Italian

  

bacchico. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acchicbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

bêbado (alcoholic, bibber, bloat, boozer, drunk, drunkard, drunken, exhilarated, gurnet, intoxicated, intoxication, light-headed, pissed, screwed, smashed, tippler, tipsy, toper), báquico, turbulento (disorderly, fractious, high, inordinate, knockabout, noisy, obstruct, rackety, rampageous, Randy, riotous, rowdy, rumbustious, stormy, tempestuous, termagant, turbulent, unquiet). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

bahic (bacchanal, bacchanalian), dionisiac (dionysiac, dionysian). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вакхический (bacchanal). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bahov, bahanalski (bacchanal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

báquico (bacchanal, bacchanalian), BA/QUICO. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

backantisk. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

розгульний (bacchanal, bacchanalian, orgiastic, roaring), вакхічний (bacchanalian). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bacchic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-c-h-i"

-3 letters: bach, chia, chic.

-4 letters: bah, cab, chi, hic, ich.

-5 letters: ab, ah, ai, ba, bi, ha, hi.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bacchic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 63 63 68 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    -.-.    -.-.    ....    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01100011 01100011 01101000 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#99 &#99 &#104 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0063 0063 0068 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36676969747569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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