bacchanalia
noun
bac·cha·na·lia
ˌba-kə-ˈnāl-yə 
ˌbä-
plural bacchanalia
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Bacchanalia plural
: a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry
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Examples of bacchanalia in a Sentence
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The annual bacchanalia, now in its 139th year, traces its history to 1885 – that was the year President Grover Cleveland refused to attend.
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Colleen Long, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2024
Compared with nearby Bend — a bacchanalia of Gore-Tex and microbreweries where the median home price hovers above $700,000 — Redmond is middle class.
—ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2024
Amid the bacchanalia, Tiffany was preparing his masterstroke.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
The patience that administrators initially displayed toward their most obstreperous students ran out when the antisocial campus bacchanalia, and their tolerance thereof, did reputational damage to their host institutions.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 2 Jan. 2024
Spent a day last week at the bacchanalia of imagination that is San Diego Comic-Con.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
It was made by Schutz standing inside the thing, forming and adding clay, melding this wild bacchanalia.
—Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023
The bacchanalia started with a silver bowl of (optional) Jaegermeister shots for guests, whose seats awaited behind tables pre-littered with stale French fries and wine stains.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2023
In February, the bacchanalia begins with the island’s spirited carnival celebrations, called Mas Dominik.
—Kristin Braswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2023
Colleen Long, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Mar. 2024
Compared with nearby Bend — a bacchanalia of Gore-Tex and microbreweries where the median home price hovers above $700,000 — Redmond is middle class.
—ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2024
Amid the bacchanalia, Tiffany was preparing his masterstroke.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
The patience that administrators initially displayed toward their most obstreperous students ran out when the antisocial campus bacchanalia, and their tolerance thereof, did reputational damage to their host institutions.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 2 Jan. 2024
Spent a day last week at the bacchanalia of imagination that is San Diego Comic-Con.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
It was made by Schutz standing inside the thing, forming and adding clay, melding this wild bacchanalia.
—Vulture, 30 Nov. 2023
The bacchanalia started with a silver bowl of (optional) Jaegermeister shots for guests, whose seats awaited behind tables pre-littered with stale French fries and wine stains.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Feb. 2023
In February, the bacchanalia begins with the island’s spirited carnival celebrations, called Mas Dominik.
—Kristin Braswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2023
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“Bacchanalia.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bacchanalia. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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