bacchanal
bacc·ha·nal
noun
1.
3.
a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
adjective
1.
used of riotously drunken merrymaking
- “a night of bacchanalian revelry”
- “carousing bands of drunken soldiers”
- “orgiastic festivity”
Origin
From Latin Bacchānālis (“of or pertaining to Bacchus”). See Bacchanalia.
Related words
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