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bacchante

bacchante noun: a priestess of Bacchus.

Noun

bacchante (plural bacchantes)

  1. A priestess of Bacchus.
    Synonyms:
    maenad
  2. A female bacchanal.
    • “… There was a man who always painted marble seats and another who did nothing but sheep. So a fellow I knew determined only to paint backs. Men's backs, women's backs, girls' backs and boys backs. […] his best known bacchante was described by a critic as all back and no ante, but his backs became...1936, Herbert Adams, chapter 2, in A Word of Six Letters
    Synonyms:
    maenad

Synonyms of bacchante

Forms of bacchante

pluralbacchantes
alternative formBacchante

Questions about bacchante

What does bacchante mean?
Bacchante means a priestess of Bacchus.
What part of speech is bacchante?
Bacchante is a noun.
What is the plural of bacchante?
The plural of bacchante is bacchantes.

Words near bacchante in the dictionary

  1. bacchanalizes
  2. bacchanalizing
  3. bacchanals
  4. bacchanology
  5. bacchant
  6. bacchante
  7. bacchantes
  8. bacchantic
  9. bacchants
  10. bacchiac
  11. bacchiacs

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