Bacchanal: Definition and part of speech

Bacchanal

  1. n. A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.
  2. a. Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
  3. a. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
  4. n. A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.
  5. n. The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
  6. n. Drunken revelry; an orgy.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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