Word.ws English Dictionary

thiasus

thiasus noun: a group of singers and dancers assembled to celebrate the festival of one of the gods.

Noun

thiasus (plural thiasi)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A group of singers and dancers assembled to celebrate the festival of one of the gods.

Forms of thiasus

pluralthiasi

Origin of thiasus

From Latin, from Ancient Greek θίασος (thíasos).

Questions about thiasus

What does thiasus mean?
Thiasus means a group of singers and dancers assembled to celebrate the festival of one of the gods.
What part of speech is thiasus?
Thiasus is a noun.
What is the plural of thiasus?
The plural of thiasus is thiasi.

Words near thiasus in the dictionary

  1. thiasos
  2. thiasote
  3. thiasotes
  4. thiaspirane
  5. thiaspiranes
  6. thiasus
  7. thiatriazole
  8. thiatriazoles
  9. thiatriazoline
  10. thiatriazolines
  11. thiazate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thiasus (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “thiasus.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thiasus. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.