What's the difference between bacchanal and carouser?

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.

Carouser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who carouses; a reveler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She urges officers to watch out for "late-night carousing, long sessions, yet another bottle of wine at lunch – they are all longstanding media tactics to get you to spill the beans.
  • (2) Late-night carousing, long sessions, yet another bottle of wine at lunch – these are longstanding media tactics to get you spill the beans.
  • (3) The secret service's reputation for rowdy behaviour was reinforced in April 2012 in the runup to Obama's visit to the Caribbean resort of Cartagena in Colombia, where 13 agents and officers were accused of carousing with female foreign nationals at a hotel where they were staying before the president's arrival.
  • (4) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
  • (5) Tom is a heavy metal fan who, as Matt says in the film, thinks indie rock is "pretentious bullshit"; the National are all around 40 with their carousing days behind them, so Tom brought the party himself, getting wasted on his own and filming himself for kicks.
  • (6) No doubt he would look back on that evening, what he remembers of it anyway, with a wistful remembrance of the luxury of anonymity, the ability to carouse mostly unmolested from pub to pub on one of the busiest neighbourhoods in the world.
  • (7) But even then people pointed out that Munich’s heavy autumnal rainfall wasn’t conducive to excessive carousing.
  • (8) We expected some light-hearted carousing appropriate to this time of year, but didn’t expect to stumble upon these rabble-rousers and police in riot gear.” Among the groups taking part, according to the police, were two soccer hooligan organisations already known to the police called “Faust des Ostens” (Fist of the East) and Hooligans Elbflorenz (Florence of the Elbe Hooligans), as well as members of the National Democratic Party (NPD).
  • (9) An average of 8.2 carious teeth with 14.0 carous surfaces required treatment.
  • (10) They were accused of carousing with female foreign nationals at a hotel where they were staying before Obama’s arrival.
  • (11) The problem is that pirates are such poor role models, drinking rum and carousing with women, cutting people’s throats and making them walk the plank and so on.
  • (12) The Mancunian has a loyal and diverse array of friends who delight in his love of karaoke and late-night carousing at the Groucho.
  • (13) In December secret policemen spent the evening carousing with Mr Putin, not at their Lubyanka headquarters in Moscow but in the Kremlin, to celebrate the foundation in December 1917 of the Cheka, the Bolshevik forerunner of the KGB which developed into the key instrument of the Great Terror.
  • (14) The Lapin is atmospheric: a two-room cabin from the 1860s where generations of artists and ne’er-do-wells have caroused, from the impressionists onwards.

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