Pronounced: HAH-kuhl, noun
Notes: I knew one definition (you probably do, too), but one was not known to me
Yesterday’s word
The word bacchant means “a boisterous reveler”
First usage
Our word came into English in the very late 1600
Background / Comments
Even though it was the third pronunciation, it is how I would pronounce this word (BACK-uhnt). Our word comes from Roman mythology; specifically, from Bacchus, the god of wine in Roman mythology (the Greek equivalent is Dionysus).
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