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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bacchus \Bac"chus\, noun [L., fr. Gr. Ba'kchos.] (Myth.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Bacchus
noun: (classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "Bacchus": Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, bacchanalianism, bibaciousness, bibacity, bibulosity, bibulousness, crapulence, crapulousness, intemperance, serious drinking, sottishness
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
BACCHUS, noun A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus The lictors dare to run us in, And resolutely thump and whack us? Jorace
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