bacchant
Plural: bacchantes, bacchants, bachants
Noun
- A priest, priestess, or follower of the wine god Bacchus.
- someone who engages in drinking bouts
- a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
- (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus
- A priest of Bacchus.
- A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
Adj
- fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
Examples
- He celebrated his bingo with the wild joy of a bacchant.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bacchantem, present active participle of bacchor (“to celebrate rites of Bacchus; to revel”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).
Synonyms
bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanalian
Scrabble Score: 17
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