Word of the Day – Bacchanal

Bacchanal (noun)

bak-un-al

A wild and drunken celebration: A crazed party with drunken revelry, ecstatic sexual experimentation, and wild music.

Taken from the Roman God of wine and agriculture, Bacchus.

Example sentences

“Initially very sedate the party soon descended into a bacchanal gathering.”

“The debauched and alcoholic president was said to be organising unceasing bacchanals.”