Bac`cha*na"li*a (?), n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. ]
1. Myth.
A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
2.
Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.
© Webster 1913.