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Definitions of bacchant in various dictionaries:

noun - someone who engages in drinking bouts

noun - a drunken reveller

noun - (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus

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Possible Crossword Clues
Drunk returned shortly to join chorus
Priest cut short second psalm
Drunkard to sing after taxi's been turned over

Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles
Dec 3 2014 The Telegraph - Toughie
Sep 30 2006 The Times - Cryptic
Jun 18 2005 The Times - Cryptic

Possible Dictionary Clues
A priest, priestess, or follower of Bacchus.
a priest, priestess, or follower of Bacchus.
Greek amp Roman Mythology A priest or votary of Bacchus.
A boisterous reveler.
(classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus
a drunken reveller a devotee of Bacchus
someone who engages in drinking bouts

Bacchant might refer to
In Greek mythology, maenads (; Ancient Greek: [mainades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae or Bacchantes in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox-skin. * Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by Dionysus into a state of ecstatic frenzy through a combination of dancing and intoxication. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped with a pine cone. They would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads or wear a bull helmet in honor of their god, and often handle or wear snakes.These women were mythologized as the 'mad women' who were nurses of Dionysus in Nysa. Lycurgus "chased the Nurses of the frenzied Dionysus through the holy hills of Nysa, and the sacred implements dropped

Bacchant might refer to

In Greek mythology, maenads (; Ancient Greek: [mainades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae or Bacchantes in Roman mythology after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox-skin.
* Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by Dionysus into a state of ecstatic frenzy through a combination of dancing and intoxication. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped with a pine cone. They would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads or wear a bull helmet in honor of their god, and often handle or wear snakes.These women were mythologized as the 'mad women' who were nurses of Dionysus in Nysa. Lycurgus "chased the Nurses of the frenzied Dionysus through the holy hills of Nysa, and the sacred implements dropped

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