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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

bacchus

/ˈbækɪs/

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What does bacchus mean?

proper noun

  1. The Greco-Roman god of wine and vivid social gatherings.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈbækɪs/

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“A Bacchus, realistically treated! My dear young friend, never trifle with your lofty mission. Spotless marble should represent virtue, not vice!”
Henry JamesRoderick HudsonProject Gutenberg ebook #176
This quality was their Bacchus, Dionysos, or god-idea--the creator not alone of physical existence, but of good and evil as well.
Eliza Burt GambleThe God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in ReligionProject Gutenberg ebook #639
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All places resounded with music of pipes and flutes, with harping and singing, and women dancing as in the rites of Bacchus.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
In consequence of the connection of this king with the vine, he was converted in later times into the dissolute god Bacchus.
Ignatius DonnellyAtlantis: The Antedeluvian WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #4032
Although the Bacchus is distinctively a wine grape, I have already said that its flavor, when fully ripe, was agreeable to me.
Edward Payson RoeThe Home AcreProject Gutenberg ebook #5418