bacchante

[ buh-kan-tee, -kahn-, buh-kant, -kahnt ]

noun
  1. a female bacchant.

Origin of bacchante

1
1790–1800; back formation from Latin bacchantēs, feminine plural of bacchānsbacchant; pronunciation with silent -e<French bacchante, feminine of bacchant bacchant

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British Dictionary definitions for bacchante

bacchante

/ (bəˈkæntɪ) /


nounplural bacchantes (bəˈkæntɪz)
  1. a priestess or female votary of Bacchus

  2. a drunken female reveller

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