Usually means: Wild, drunken, and riotous celebration.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word bacchanal:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bacchanal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bacchanal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bacchanal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bacchanal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bacchanal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bacchanal, bacchanal: Wordnik
  7. Bacchanal, bacchanal: Wiktionary
  8. bacchanal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bacchanal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bacchanal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Bacchanal, bacchanal: Dictionary.com
  12. Bacchanal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bacchanal (album), Bacchanal (horse), Bacchanal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bacchanal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bacchanal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. bacchanal: Rhymezone
  17. Bacchanal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. bacchanal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. bacchanal: Free Dictionary
  20. bacchanal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bacchanal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. bacchanal: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. bacchanal: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bacchanal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bacchanal: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bacchanal: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bacchanal: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bacchanals 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.]

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