What does the word bacchanalian mean?
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A bacchanal.
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: adjective
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Usage examples for bacchanalian
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Then, at last, had come the separation, irrevocable and painful; and Jim had flung out into the world, a drunkard, who, sober for a fortnight, or a month, or three months, would afterward go off on a spree, in which he quoted Sappho and Horace in taverns, and sang bacchanalian songs with a voice meant for the stage- a heritage from an ancestor who had sung upon the English stage a hundred years before. – Northern Lights by Gilbert Parker
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His dogs thinking him out of the way for a time, discipline instantly relaxed; and they broke into a bacchanalian dance, which brought him to his feet at once; all traces of human weakness gone, as if a bucket of water had passed over him. – Peter and Wendy by James Matthew Barrie
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Many of them were crowned with grape leaves, like Bacchanalian dancers, and some of them carried baskets filled with the fruit. – The Motor Maids Across the Continent by Katherine Stokes