bacchant Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who engages in drinking bouts
    bacchanal; drunken reveller; drunken reveler.
  2. noun a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
    bacchanal.
  3. noun (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus

WordNet

Bac"chant noun
Etymology
L. bacchans, -antis, p. pr. of bacchari to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.
Wordforms
plural E Bacchants, L Bacchantes
Definitions
  1. A priest of Bacchus.
  2. A bacchanal; a reveler. Croly.
Bac"chant adjective
Definitions
  1. Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. Byron.

Webster 1913