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Dionysos

Dionysos is the alternative form of Dionysus.

Meaning of Dionysus

Proper noun

Dionysus

  1. (Greek) The god of wine, ivy and grapes, specifically its intoxication and social influence, but also the patron of agriculture and the theater. Also related to the mystery of religion, as in "spiritual intoxication".
    • DYSART: ... [Pause.] Then in the morning, I put away my books on the cultural shelf, close up the kodachrome snaps of Mount Olympus, touch my reproduction statue of Dionysus for luck—and go off to hospital to treat him for insanity. Do you see?1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 25”, in Equus, pages 81-2

Forms of Dionysos

pluralDionysoi

Questions about Dionysos

What is Dionysos the alternative form of?
Dionysos is the alternative form of Dionysus.

Words near Dionysos in the dictionary

  1. dionysian
  2. Dionysians
  3. dionysias
  4. Dionysius
  5. Dionysoi
  6. Dionysos
  7. Dionysus
  8. Diop
  9. dioper
  10. dioperad
  11. dioperads

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