noun
- bacchante.
- a frenzied or raging woman.
noun
- classical myth a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus; bacchante
- a frenzied woman
n.“Bacchante,” 1570s, from Greek mainas (genitive mainados) “priestess of Bacchus,” literally “madwoman,” from stem of mainesthai “to rage, go mad” (see mania).