bacchant

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun someone who engages in drinking bouts
  2. noun a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
  3. noun (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bacchantem, present active participle of bacchor (“to celebrate rites of Bacchus; to revel”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

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Synonyms

drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal

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