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orgy

If you have an orgy of presents or snacks or even new ideas, you have so many it's almost obscene. In this figurative use, orgy means a lot of.

The word orgy comes from the Greek orgia meaning "secret rites" which referred to the secret rites of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and love-making. An orgy is a gathering of a number of people that involves sex and drinking. As well as the meaning of many things, you can use the word orgy to refer to any intense activity. Before school starts in the fall, most kids get to go on an orgy of shopping for cloths and school supplies.

DEFINITIONS OF: orgy

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n a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

Synonyms:
bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, riot, saturnalia
Type of:
revel, revelry
unrestrained merrymaking

n any act of immoderate indulgence

“an orgy of shopping”
Synonyms:
binge, splurge
Type of:
humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering
the act of indulging or gratifying a desire

n secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity

Type of:
religious rite, rite
an established ceremony prescribed by a religion
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