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Meanings of bacchanal in English
A wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity.
Synonyms
Examples for "bacchant"
Examples for "bacchant"
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The young bacchant had an immediate answer.
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Phrygians are seen reposing after a festival, bacchants rush in and the wild orgies begin afresh.
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But shall I be more like a Bacchant holding the thyrsus in my right hand, or in this?
4
The influence, direct and indirect, of these German philosophers reached far beyond the narrow circle of the bacchants or even the wandbearers of idealism.
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The strains of fiddles and the sound of shuffling feet were pierced occasionally by the whoop of a drunken reveler.
2
He was "baptized" by some drunken reveler, so that the stench of spilled whisky filled his nostrils and tortured him the night through.
3
A few drunken revelers happened by, but they were too blind with liquor to notice them.
4
"Looks like someone's on his way to a party," he told her, turning her quickly toward the group of drunken revelers.
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Why was he lingering here like a drunken reveller at a table of spilt wine?
2
Rising hastily, I closed the door of my bedroom, thinking I had to do with some drunken reveller who might be noisy.
3
Odd as was this proposition, it exactly suited the half- drunken revellers.
4
A few stunned birds survived their fall and stumbled around like drunken revellers.
5
Drunken revellers and what its like to ride the Gold Coast trams on a Saturday night.
Used of riotously drunken merrymaking.
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Usage of bacchanal in English
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This is the immemorial bacchanal lurching through the kaleidoscope of the centuries.
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The individual I had seen at Baden,-thegamester, the bacchanal, the debauchee!
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His eye was alight, his color coppery, his air swagger, devil-may-care, bacchanal.
4
It's usually a deeply technical bacchanal, but this year was not.
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At the height of the bacchanal I emptied the purse into a bottle.
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But on Thursday night's example, AFLX is more banal than bacchanal.
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Welcome to yet another Cyber Monday, that annual bacchanal of discounted Instant Pots.
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Early on, his OnlyFans page was a bacchanal of foot fetishism.
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Too long have we been blind to the bacchanal of corruption.
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The wide expanse reverberated with bacchanal songs, and drunken shouts, and frenzied war-whoops.
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The fresh vine-leaf cools the hot forehead of the bacchanal.
12
It is a bacchanal, a general access of delirium tremens.
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The last bacchanal painted by Renovales was in a fashionable bar in New York.
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Meanwhile, an incongruous figure slips through into the promised bacchanal.
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It reminded me that what underwrote the bacchanal was murder.
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And hiding his head on the arm of a Syrian bacchanal, he burst into tears.
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Bacchanal through the time