ORGY DEFINITIONS - 7 definitions found
orgy n 1: any act of immoderate indulgence; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" [syn: orgy, binge, splurge] 2: secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity 3: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry] Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary orgy ˈɔ:dʒɪ 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. [orig. pl., f. F orgies f. L orgia f. Gk orgia secret rites] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Orgy \Or"gy\, n.; pl. Orgies. A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Orgies \Or"gies\, n. pl.; sing. Orgy. Note: [The singular is rarely used.] [F. orgie, orgies, L. orgia, pl., Gr. ?; akin to ? work. See Organ, and Work.] 1. 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. As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held. --Drayton. 2. Drunken revelry; a carouse. --B. Jonson. Tennyson. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) orgy ˈɔ:dʒɪ n. 1 bacchanalia, bacchanal, Saturnalia, Dionysia, debauch, carousal, carouse, spree, revel, party, Colloq binge, bender, drunk, bust, Slang jag, US and Canadian toot, tear: The journalist represented the earl's party as a wild orgy. 2 overindulgence, splurge, spree, fling, Slang US bender: Trying to lift himself out of depression, Roger went on a spending orgy. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 68 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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