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Bacchant (Noun)

Someone who engages in drinking bouts.

Nouns denoting people.

The notorious bacchant was known for his ability to down an entire bottle of whiskey in one sitting.
After a few years of college, he had earned a reputation as a bacchant, always looking for the next party.
His friends had grown tired of his bacchant ways and were starting to distance themselves from him.
The bacchant stumbled out of the bar, barely able to stand after a night of heavy drinking.
Despite his success in business, he was still a bacchant at heart, always looking for an excuse to crack open a cold beer.

(classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus.

Nouns denoting people.

A drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus.

Nouns denoting people.

The streets were filled with bacchants, their faces flushed with wine and their voices raised in wild abandon.
As a young man, he had been a bacchant, spending his nights drinking and dancing with his friends, but now he had settled down.
The ancient Greeks depicted the bacchant as a frenzied figure, torn between ecstasy and madness.
In the midst of the festival, the bacchant stumbled and fell, his wine-soaked robes staining the pavement.
The poet's bacchant was a romantic figure, a symbol of the unbridled passion and creativity that came with intoxication.