Word Study
Orgy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Orgy has 3 senses
- orgy(n = noun.act) binge, splurge - any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" is a kind of humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering
- orgy(n = noun.act) Array - secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity; Array is a kind of religious rite, rite
- orgy(n = noun.act) bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, riot, saturnalia - a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity; Array is a kind of revel, revelry
Derived forms adjective orgiastic2, adjective orgiastic1
Derived forms adjective orgiastic2, adjective orgiastic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. Usually in the plural form."[The singular is rarely used in this sense.]" [1913 Webster]"As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god,
Those priests high orgies held." [1913 Webster] - Wild, drunken, or licentious revelry; an uninhibited carouse. B. Jonson.
Tennyson. [1913 Webster] - A series of sexual activities involving more than two couples in a group. [PJC]
- An event characterized by unrestrained indulgence in passion; as, an orgy of buying of internet stocks. [PJC]
Orgy, n.
A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Orgy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a wild drunken festivity at which indiscriminate sexual activity takes place.
2 excessive indulgence in an activity.
3 (usu. in pl.) Gk & Rom. Hist. secret rites used in the worship of esp. Bacchus, celebrated with dancing, drunkenness, singing, etc.
1 a wild drunken festivity at which indiscriminate sexual activity takes place.
2 excessive indulgence in an activity.
3 (usu. in pl.) Gk & Rom. Hist. secret rites used in the worship of esp. Bacchus, celebrated with dancing, drunkenness, singing, etc.
Etymology
orig. pl., f. F orgies f. L orgia f. Gk orgia secret rites
THESAURUS
Orgy
Saturnalia, abandon, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, bender, binge, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, compotation, craze, debauch, debauchery, debauchment, delirium, dissipation, drinking bout, drunk, drunken carousal, ecstasy, escapade, fire and fury, fling, free living, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, guzzle, high living, hysteria, intoxication, jag, killing pace, lark, licentiousness, madness, orgasm, overindulgence, party, passion, ploy, potation, pub-crawl, rage, rampage, randan, randy, rapture, ravishment, revel, riotous living, saturnalia, soak, splurge, spree, symposium, tear, tearing passion, toot, towering rage, transport, wassail, wingding
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