Usually means: Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. orgies: Merriam-Webster
  2. orgies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orgies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. orgies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Orgies, orgies: Wordnik
  6. orgies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. orgies: Wiktionary
  8. Orgies, orgies: Dictionary.com
  9. orgies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Orgies: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Orgies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. orgies: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Orgies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. orgies: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. orgies: FreeDictionary.org
  16. orgies: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Orgies: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. orgies: Legal dictionary

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  1. orgies: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

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  1. orgies: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See orgy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (orgy)

noun:  Originally, secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc). [from 16th c.]
noun:  A gathering of people to engage in group sex.
noun:  Excessive indulgence in a specified activity.
▸ Also see orgy


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