Maenad

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  • noun. A woman member of the orgiastic cult of Dionysus.
  • noun. A frenzied woman.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Greek myth, a female member of the attendant train of Bacchus; hence, a priestess of Bacchus; one of the women who celebrated the festivals of Bacchus with mad songs and dancing and boisterous courses in gay companies amid the crags of Parnassus and Cithæron, particularly on the occasion of the great triennial Bacchic festival.
  • noun. Hence Any woman under the influence of unnatural excitement or frenzy.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.
  • noun. A frantic or frenzied woman.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling.
  • noun. An excessively wild or emotional woman.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman
  • noun. (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
    • Word Usage
    "In the second book of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series “Living Dead In Dallas”, a creature called a maenad is introduced."
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    maenadic  maenadism  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    adult female  woman  
    Same Context
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    busman  clearin  hue and cry  improvisatore  joyn  
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    bacchante  nymph  reveler  
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