bacchanalia

Other forms of bacchanalia

plural

bacchanalias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bacchanalia

What does bacchanalia mean?

bacchanalia means "an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bacchanalia?

bacchanalia has 4 syllables: bac-cha-na-lia. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˌbækəˈneɪljə/.

What is another word for bacchanalia?

Close synonyms include Dionysia, orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bacchanalia a common word?

bacchanalia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bacchanalia?

1 word rhymes with bacchanalia. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.