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Definition of bacchanal

a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
someone who engages in drinking bouts
used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"

Similar Words: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanalia, drunken revelry, bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic

Derivational Morphology: carouse, roister, riot, corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect

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