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bacchant

[ bak-uhnt, buh-kant, -kahnt ]

noun

plural bacchants, bacchantes
  1. a priest, priestess, or votary of Bacchus; bacchanal.
  2. a drunken reveler.


adjective

  1. inclined to revelry.

bacchant

/ ˈ²úæ°ìÉ™²Ô³Ù /

noun

  1. a priest or votary of Bacchus
  2. a drunken reveller
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Origin of bacchant1

First recorded in 1690–1700, bacchant is from the Latin word bacchant- (stem of ²ú²¹³¦³¦³óÄå²Ô²õ, present participle of ²ú²¹³¦³¦³óÄå°ùÄ« to revel). See Bacchus, -ant
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Origin of bacchant1

C17: from Latin ²ú²¹³¦³¦³óÄå²Ô²õ , from ²ú²¹³¦³¦³óÄå°ùÄ« to celebrate the bacchanalia
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They also show off by picking up guitars and microphones and dancing like prairie bacchantes.

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In one section, two dancers turn and leap like ballet bacchantes.

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But in 1979, when Jerome Robbins made his Verdi ballet “The Four Seasons†for City Ballet, he specifically and effectively imitated those very bacchantes and satyrs.

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I have seen quiet Copenhageners, with Danish autumnal coolness in their veins, become political bacchantes at his playing.

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Among them, with trunks caught as it were in the warm embraces of these troops of bacchantes, are thousands of silver-green olive-trees.

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