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Corybant

Corybant is the alternative spelling of Korybant.

Meaning of Korybant

Noun

Korybant (plural Korybantes)

  1. (historical) Any of a group of crested male dancers who worshipped the Phrygian goddess Cybele with drumming and dancing.

Forms of Corybant

pluralCorybants
pluralCorybantes

Origin of Corybant

Borrowed from Latin Corybās, from Ancient Greek Κορύβᾱς (Korúbās).

Words formed from Corybant

Questions about Corybant

What is Corybant the alternative spelling of?
Corybant is the alternative spelling of Korybant.

Words near Corybant in the dictionary

  1. Corwin
  2. Corwins
  3. Corwith
  4. cory
  5. Cory's shearwater
  6. Corybant
  7. Corybantes
  8. Corybantian
  9. corybantiasm
  10. corybantic
  11. corybantine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Corybant (page history and authors); Korybant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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