Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bacchant"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bacchant \Bac"chant\, a.
Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling;
carousing. --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bacchant \Bac"chant\, n.; pl. E. {Bacchants}, L. {Bacchantes}.
[L. bacchans, -antis, p. pr. of bacchari to celebrate the
festival of Bacchus.]
1. A priest of Bacchus.
2. A bacchanal; a reveler. --Croly.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bacchant
n 1: someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: {drunken reveler},
{drunken reveller}, {bacchanal}]
2: a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: {bacchanal}]
3: (Greek and Roman mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus
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