bacchant
Meanings
noun
- A priest of Bacchus.
- A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
adj
- fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
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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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