orgies Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any act of immoderate indulgence
    splurge; binge; orgy.
    • an orgy of shopping
    • an emotional binge
    • a splurge of spending
  2. noun secret rite in the cults of ancient Greek or Roman deities involving singing and dancing and drinking and sexual activity
    orgy.
  3. noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
    bacchanalia; saturnalia; bacchanal; riot; debauch; drunken revelry; debauchery; orgy.

WordNet

Or"gies noun plural
Etymology
F. orgie, orgies, L. orgia, pl., Gr. akin to work. See Organ, and Work.
Wordforms
singular Orgy
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913