bacchanalia

Noun

Meaning

A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bacchanal orgy debauchery saturnalia wassail riot revelry debauch carouse carousal dionysia drunken revelry bender jag fiesta
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Antonyms

care honor integrity morality purity dignity
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Hypernyms

fete festival revel revelry

Related terms

saturnalia bacchanal dionysia

Examples

Similar attrition may have been imposed on Liber's cults; his perceived or actual association with the Bacchanalia may be the reason that his Liberalia ludi of 17 March were temporarily moved to Ceres' Cerealia of 12–19 April. Source: Internet

Overview in Erich S. Gruen, "The Bacchanalia affair", in Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy, University of California Press, 1996, p. 34 ff. Source: Internet

Congregations of mixed gender were permitted, but were limited to no more than two men and three women, and any Bacchanalia gathering must seek prior permission from the Senate. Source: Internet

Holidays (mysteries) dedicated to Dionysus in Greece were called Dionysii; in Rome they were known as Bacchanalia and in Thrace as Rozalii. Source: Internet

Senatorial legislation to reform the Bacchanalia in 186 BC attempted to control their size, organisation, and priesthoods, under threat of the death penalty. Source: Internet

The reformed, officially approved Bacchic cults would have borne little resemblance to the earlier crowded, ecstatic and uninhibited Bacchanalia. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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