bacchanal

Meanings

Adjective

• Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
• Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

Noun

• A devotee of Bacchus.
• Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
• The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
• Drunken revelry; an orgy.
• A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
• drama, ruckus, fiasco

Origin

• From Latin Bacchānālis ("of or pertaining to Bacchus"). See Bacchanalia.