noun
- Someone who engages in drinking bouts.
- synonyms: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchant
- A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus.
- synonyms: bacchant
- A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
- synonyms: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanalia, drunken revelry
adjective
- Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.
- usage: "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity"
- synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic
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