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单词 bacchanal
释义
bacchanal
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nadj

A bacchanal is a crazed party with drunken revelry, ecstatic sexual experimentation, and wild music. In a nutshell, it is "sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll."
Bacchus was the Roman god of wine, which loosened the chains of social restraints; and so, the name of Bacchantes’ hedonistic, pleasure-filled gatherings were named bacchanals. Who might be a modern-day Bacchus? Elvis Presley had bacchanalian charisma. Now, this bit of trivia might impress your friends: the song we know as the Can-Can is titled "Bacchanale," from the opera Orpheus in the Underworld – that’s one hot steaming club jam going on down in Hades!
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bacchanal: bacchanalian, bacchanals+/bacchanalian: bacchanalianly
USAGE EXAMPLES
The latest example: an alleged rape last month at an annual Halloween bacchanal in Georgetown.
Washington Post(Nov 28, 2016)
One of these, Titian’s “Bacchanal of the Andrians,” has returned here for the first time since it was sold in 1598.
New York Times(Oct 20, 2016)
Wine: The Bayou Bacchanal at Bayou Bakery brings half-price bottles of wine to the Louisiana-themed restaurant’s Arlington and Capitol Hill locations after 5 p.m.
Washington Post(Sep 08, 2016)
1n a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
Syn|Hyper
bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia
revel, revelry
unrestrained merrymaking
2n a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
Syn|Hyper
bacchant
buff, devotee, fan, lover
an ardent follower and admirer
3n someone who engages in drinking bouts
Syn|Hyper
bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller
drinker, imbiber, juicer, toper
a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
4adj used of riotously drunken merrymaking
Syn
bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic
drunk, inebriated, intoxicated
stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
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