Usually means: Wild, drunken festivals honoring Bacchus.
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  1. bacchanals: Merriam-Webster
  2. bacchanals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bacchanals: Vocabulary.com
  4. Bacchanals, bacchanals: Wordnik
  5. bacchanals: Wiktionary
  6. bacchanals: Dictionary.com
  7. bacchanals: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. Bacchanals: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bacchanals: Legal dictionary

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  1. Bacchanals: Encyclopedia

(Note: See bacchanal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bacchanal)

adjective:  Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
adjective:  Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
noun:  A devotee of Bacchus.
noun:  Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
noun:  (in the plural) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
noun:  Drunken revelry; an orgy.
noun:  A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
noun:  (Trinidad and Tobago, informal) drama, ruckus, fiasco
adjective:  Alternative form of bacchanal [Relating to Bacchus or his festival.]
▸ Also see bacchanal


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