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bacchantes

bacchantes is the plural of bacchant.

bacchantes is the plural of bacchante.

Meaning of bacchant

Noun

bacchant (plural bacchants or bacchantes)

  1. A priest of Bacchus.
  2. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.

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Meaning of bacchante

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

Questions about bacchantes

What is bacchantes the plural of?
Bacchantes is the plural of bacchant.

Words near bacchantes in the dictionary

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

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