bacchant : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bacchant	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for bacchant
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bacchant n someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: {drunken reveler}, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant] a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus Synonym(s): bacchant, bacchanal (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bacchant \Bac"chant\, a. Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bacchant \Bac"chant\, n.; pl. E. {Bacchants}, L. {Bacchantes}. [L. bacchans, -antis, p. pr. of bacchari to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.] 1. A priest of Bacchus. 2. A bacchanal; a reveler. --Croly.