bacchant n someone who engages in drinking bouts n a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus n (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus Usage(s) Everyone who has ever seen a Jack Lemmon movie will instantly surmise that the model account exec is a three-button bacchant, and so he is. Synonym(s) drunken reveler drunken reveller bacchanal