Definition of "bacchanalia" [bacchanalia]

• A wild, orgiastic party or celebration. (noun)

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• "To see the symbols of violence - yellow barricades, barrels, armed guards, Police jeeps and sniffer dogs - intermingled with the bacchanalia is a strange juxtaposition for us used to a different atmosphere."
• "She wanders into an idyllic glen, where a kind of bacchanalia is taking place."
• "Earlier, Voronin had demanded an end to what he called the "bacchanalia" of protests."