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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɔː.d͡ʒi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɔɹd͡ʒi/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-orgy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: orgies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒi Etymology: Originally in plural from French orgies, from Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia, “secret rites, mysteries”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|orgies}} French orgies, {{der|en|la|orgia}} Latin orgia, {{der|en|grc|ὄργια||secret rites, mysteries}} Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia, “secret rites, mysteries”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} orgy (plural orgies)
  1. Originally, secret rites or ceremonies, typically involving riotous and dissolute behaviour, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honour of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc). [from :Template:SAFESUBST: c.] Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-orgy-en-noun-QqKLys22 Disambiguation of Sex: 61 36 3
  2. A gathering of people to engage in group sex. Synonyms: fuckfest [vulgar]
    Sense id: en-orgy-en-noun-wuZp29BS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 48 19 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 30 59 11
  3. Excessive indulgence in a specified activity. Translations (excessive activity): orgie [neuter] (Danish), orgio (Esperanto), orgiat [plural] (Finnish), mässäily (Finnish), orgie [feminine] (French), Orgie [feminine] (German), όργιο (órgio) [neuter] (Greek), lėbavimas [masculine] (Lithuanian), пир (pir) [masculine] (Macedonian), orgia [feminine] (Polish), orgia [feminine] (Portuguese), о̀ргија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), òrgija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), orgía [feminine] (Spanish), orgie [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-orgy-en-noun-6HtkHEhb Disambiguation of 'excessive activity': 19 18 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: cuntfest, gangbang, suckfest Derived forms: couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel, orgiast, orgiastic, orgy-goer, orgylike Related terms: group sex Translations (sexual group activity): օրգիա (ōrgia) (Armenian), о́ргія (órhija) [feminine] (Belarusian), о́ргия (órgija) (Bulgarian), orgia [feminine] (Catalan), 亂交派對 (Chinese Mandarin), 乱交派对 (luànjiāo pàiduì) (Chinese Mandarin), orgie [feminine] (Czech), orgie [neuter] (Danish), orgie (Dutch), orgio (Esperanto), orgiat [plural] (Finnish), ryhmäseksi (Finnish), orgie [feminine] (French), partouze [feminine] (French), orxía [feminine] (Galician), Orgie [feminine] (German), όργιο (órgio) [neuter] (Greek), παρτούζα (partoúza) [feminine] (Greek), אוֹרְגִיָה (órgiya) [feminine] (Hebrew), orgia (Hungarian), orgía [feminine] (Icelandic), orgia [feminine] (Italian), 乱交パーティー (rankō pātī) (alt: らんこうパーティー) (Japanese), オージー (ōjī) (Japanese), 乱交 (rankō) (alt: らんこう) (Japanese), 난교 (nan'gyo) (alt: 亂交) (Korean), 란교 (ran'gyo) (alt: 亂交) [North-Korea] (Korean), 주신제 (jusinje) (Korean), orgia (Latin), orģija [feminine] (Latvian), òrgija [feminine] (Lithuanian), оргија (orgija) [feminine] (Macedonian), orgie [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), orgia [feminine] (Polish), orgia [feminine] (Portuguese), orgie [feminine] (Romanian), о́ргия (órgija) [feminine] (Russian), о̀ргија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), òrgija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), orgia [feminine] (Slovak), órgija [feminine] (Slovene), orgía [feminine] (Spanish), orgie [common-gender] (Swedish), alem (Turkish), seks partisi (Turkish), о́ргія (órhija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'sexual group activity': 45 15 40

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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
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      "_dis1": "45 15 40",
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
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      "_dis1": "45 15 40",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
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      "_dis1": "45 15 40",
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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "亂交派對"
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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "word": "乱交派对"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "word": "ryhmäseksi"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "word": "orgie"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "partouze"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "orxía"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Orgie"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "órgio",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "אוֹרְגִיָה"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "word": "orgia"
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "orgía"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "orgia"
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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "word": "乱交パーティー"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "word": "乱交"
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      "alt": "亂交",
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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "word": "난교"
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      "alt": "亂交",
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      "sense": "sexual group activity",
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      "word": "란교"
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      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "jusinje",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "word": "주신제"
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      "word": "orgia"
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "pl",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "code": "ro",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "es",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "sv",
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      "code": "tr",
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "word": "seks partisi"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "órhija",
      "sense": "sexual group activity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "о́ргія"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "excessive activity",
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
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      "word": "orgio"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "excessive activity",
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    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "excessive activity",
      "word": "mässäily"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "excessive activity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "orgie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Orgie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "excessive activity",
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      "sense": "excessive activity",
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      "code": "pt",
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "word": "òrgija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "excessive activity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "orgía"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "excessive activity",
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    "orgy"
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}

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