bacchant

Meanings

Noun

A priest of Bacchus.
A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.

Adjective

fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.

Origin

From Latin bacchāntem, accusative singular of bacchāns, present active participle of bacchor, from Bacchus, from Ancient Greek Βάκχος.

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