Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bacchanalia"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bacchanalia \Bac`cha*na"li*a\, n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place
devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of
Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. ?]
1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Bacchanalia
n 1: an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus
(= Bacchus) [syn: {Dionysia}, {Bacchanalia}]
2: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and
promiscuity [syn: {orgy}, {debauch}, {debauchery}, {saturnalia},
{riot}, {bacchanal}, {drunken revelry}]
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