bacchanal
pronunciation
How to pronounce bacchanal in British English:
UK ['bækənl]
How to pronounce bacchanal in American English:
US [ˌbækəˈnæl, -ˈnɑl, ˈbækənəl]
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- Noun:
- someone who engages in drinking bouts
- a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
- a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
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- Adjective:
- used of riotously drunken merrymaking
Word Origin
- bacchanal
- 1530s (n.); 1540s (adj.), from Latin bacchanalis "having to do with Bacchus" (see Bacchus). Meaning "riotous, drunken roistering; orgy" is from 1711.
Example
- 1. But bacchanal is a year around celebration , at work or elsewhere .
- 2. This would be scandalous or a bacchanal anywhere but not on this island .
- 3. For years , graduate and teaching assistant jobs were tied up among them with no progress in research but whole lot of bacchanal to go around .