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bacchic

Translations

Bacchicnoun

Bacchics

/ˈbækɪk/

Rare, countable: a devotee of Bacchus or participant in Bacchic rites.

Synonyms

Bacchicadjective

more Bacchic

Comp.

most Bacchic

Super.

/ˈbæk.ɪk/

The festival was celebrated with bacchic revelry.

Фестиваль отмечался вакхическим весельем.

Synonyms

Bacchicnoun

A devotee of Bacchus or a participant in Bacchic rites.

The Bacchics processed through the streets chanting hymns to the wine-god.

Bacchicadjective

Relating to or characteristic of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, or the riotous, drunken revelry associated with him.

The festival was a Bacchic celebration, filled with music, dancing, and an abundance of wine.

(Prosody) Relating to or composed in a bacchius, a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by two long syllables.

The poem switches to a Bacchic meter in the final stanza.