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Bacchant

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Noun

1. bacchanal, bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller

someone who engages in drinking bouts

2. bacchanal, bacchant

a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus

3. bacchant

(classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bacchant

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nounWord forms: plural bacchants or bacchantes (bəˈkæntɪz )
1. 
a priest or votary of Bacchus
2. 
a drunken reveller

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Bacchant

see synonyms of bacchant
nounWord forms: plural ˈbacchants or bacˈchantes (bəˈkæntiz ; bəkanˈtēz; bəˈkɑntiz ; bəkänˈtēz)
1. 
a priest or worshiper of Bacchus
2. 
a drunken carouser
adjective
3. 
worshiping Bacchus
4. 
given to carousing

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bacchant

see synonyms of bacchant
n. pl. bac·chants or bac·chan·tes (bə-kăntēz, -kän-, -kănts, -känts)
1. Greek & Roman Mythology A priest or votary of Bacchus.
2. A boisterous reveler.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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