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A bacchanalian party is one that has gone all the way into excess: a great deal of alcohol, often sex, and behaviour nobody is trying to keep polite. The word comes from the Bacchanalia, the Roman festivals for the wine god Bacchus, which later writers remember as wild and unrestrained. In English now it is a literary, slightly showing-off adjective — the kind a newspaper uses for a celebrity weekend, not the kind you need in a shop. It always means too much. A quiet dinner with wine is not bacchanalian. You may also see it as a noun for a person who lives that way, but the adjective is the form that actually turns up. It is a strong word; if you use it, people will picture chaos, not just fun.
酒神式狂歡的、放縱宴飲的（很文的詞，日常幾乎不說）
組成From Bacchanalia (the Roman wine festivals) + -an, meaning of or relating to.
同家族的字
- Bacchusthe Roman wine god whose festivals this describes
- Bacchanaliathe wild Roman festivals the adjective comes from
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Bacchanalianadj/ˌbækəˈneɪli.ən/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyOf or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus, relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
- Near-synonyms: bacchic, bacchian; Dionysiac, Dionysian; dionysiac, dionysian
- Even Bacchanalian madness has its charms.
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Of or resembling wild or unrestrained revelry.
- The dancing and shouting of the children around the fire had become even more bacchanalian.
Bacchanaliannoun/ˌbækəˈneɪli.ən/
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A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
- With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。