Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bacchanalia

Bacchanalia (bak`kȧ*nā"li*ȧ) , noun, plural

[Latin Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, from Bacchus the god of wine, Greek Ba`kchos.]

1.
(Mythology) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
2.
Hence: A drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy.