What's the difference between bacchanal and bacchante?

Bacchanal


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
  • (a.) Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
  • (n.) A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.
  • (n.) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
  • (n.) Drunken revelry; an orgy.
  • (n.) A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What happened during this once-in-a-lifetime bacchanal?
  • (2) Debauchery Stratton Oakmont's profits fund a bacchanal: cars, drugs, women who are exactly as disposable as the cars and drugs, and antics that veer from Jackass territory into hazing rituals.
  • (3) The story ricocheted around blogs and news sites illustrated with images of bare-chested, bikini-clad bacchanals around the Yucatan peninsula.
  • (4) Korine set up fiestas of his own in party hotels where no one had slept in a week, or just affixed his cast and story to bacchanals already long in progress.
  • (5) It’s the start of the trade-show-meets-tropical-bacchanal that is Art Basel Miami Beach .
  • (6) For a DJ who presided over some notorious bacchanals – he first came to prominence in the mid-70s, playing alongside his best friend Larry Levan at New York's infamous Continental Baths, a club with steam rooms, pool and private apartments that one patron described as most closely resembling "an orgy" with added music – and who began his nightclub career as a gopher employed to hand out LSD to dancers at a disco called The Gallery, he could be curiously puritanical.
  • (7) The whole work is crammed and crowded with the Dadd mixture of intricate plant life and small figures on all scales – a miniature bacchanal with satyrs, and a dead deer on a pole that rushes along above Titania's head.

Bacchante


Definition:

  • (n.) A priestess of Bacchus.
  • (n.) A female bacchanal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Connie, Clifford, Mrs Bolton and Mellors all thought separate deep thoughts of Hopelessness and Eternity, yet Connie knew she must keep her Bacchante passion.

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