bacchant

English

Alternative forms
  • Bacchant

Etymology

From Latin bacchāntem, accusative singular of bacchāns (“reveling”), present active participle of bacchor (“celebrate rites of Bacchus; revel”), from Bacchus (“the god of wine”), from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbækənt/, /bəkant/

Noun

bacchant (plural bacchants or bacchantes)

  1. A priest of Bacchus.
  2. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.

Adjective

bacchant (comparative more bacchant, superlative most bacchant)

  1. fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
    Synonym: bacchanalian

References
  • bacchant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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