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Bacchant

//ˈbækənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
Noun
  1. 1
    A priest of Bacchus.
  2. 2
    (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus wordnet
  3. 3
    A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
  4. 4
    a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus wordnet
  5. 5
    someone who engages in drinking bouts wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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).

Etymology 2

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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