bacchant

Other forms of bacchant

plural

bacchantes

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 bacchant

What does bacchant mean?

bacchant means "someone who engages in drinking bouts". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bacchant?

bacchant has 2 syllables: bac-chant. The stress falls on "bac".

What is another word for bacchant?

Close synonyms include drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchanal. 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 bacchant a common word?

bacchant 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.