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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DRUNKARD, n. One given to ebriety or an excessive used of strong liquor; a person who habitually or frequently is drunk.
A drunkard and a glutton shall come to poverty. Proverbs 23.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a chronic drinker [syn: drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century one who is habitually drunk

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a person who is drunk, esp. habitually.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Drunkard Drunk"ard, n. [Drunk + -ard.] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. -- Prov. xxiii. 21.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(drunkards) A drunkard is someone who frequently gets drunk. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Toper, tippler, sot, carouser, reveller, bacchanal, bacchanalian.

Moby Thesaurus

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