Associations to the word «Bacchante»

Wiktionary

BACCHANTE, noun. A priestess of Bacchus.
BACCHANTE, noun. A female bacchanal.

Dictionary definition

BACCHANTE, noun. (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne