maenad
pronunciation
How to pronounce maenad in British English:
UK ['mi:næd]
How to pronounce maenad in American English:
US ['minæd]
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- Noun:
- an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman
- (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
Word Origin
- maenad
- maenad: see mania
- maenad (n.)
- "Bacchante," 1570s, from Greek mainas (genitive mainados) "priestess of Bacchus," literally "madwoman," from stem of mainesthai "to rage, go mad" (see mania).
Example
- 1. I need to know how to kill a maenad .
- 2. I got no idea how we 're going to deal with a goddamn maenad .
- 3. Of some fierce maenad , even from the dim verge .
- 4. But what she really is , is a maenad .
- 5. The maenad on the left of the idol is ladling wine into a drinking cup , while the other two maenads dance ecstatically .