bacchanalia
IPA: bækʌnˈeɪɫjʌ
Root Word: Bacchanalia
noun
- (Greek mythology) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
- Any wild, orgiastic party or celebration.
- (by extension) Alternative letter-case form of bacchanalia; a drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy. [Any wild, orgiastic party or celebration.]
Examples of "bacchanalia" in Sentences
- The celebration is a Bacchanalia of the evil and demonic powers.
- But I have never experienced Fat Thursday as such a bacchanalia.
- Russia players accused of 'bacchanalia' before World Cup qualifiers
- The bacchanalia were originaly held in secret and only attended by women.
- The bacchanalia were originally held in secret and only attended by women.
- The term bacchanalia has since been extended to refer to any drunken revelry.
- She wanders into an idyllic glen, where a kind of bacchanalia is taking place.
- Earlier, Voronin had demanded an end to what he called the "bacchanalia" of protests.
- Elton John was having his annual Oscar-time birthday bacchanalia at a private room in the Beverly Hills Hotel.
- Earlier, Voronin had demanded an end to what he called the "bacchanalia" of protests, saying: "Challenging the results of the election is no more than a pretext.
- To see the symbols of violence - yellow barricades, barrels, armed guards, Police jeeps and sniffer dogs - intermingled with the bacchanalia is a strange juxtaposition for us used to a different atmosphere.