bacchants in English

noun
1
a priest, priestess, or follower of Bacchus.
Despite the presence of bacchantes and the references to wine, the bacchanalian aspect of the scene is greatly subdued, reducing the feeling of revelry and recklessness.

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11. What does Bacchants mean? Plural form of bacchant

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13. Noun Word forms: plural Bacchants or Bacchantes (bəˈkæntɪz) 1

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15. bacchant (plural Bacchants or bacchantes) A priest of Bacchus

16. Bacchants priestesses or female devotees of the god Bacchus

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18. οἰνῶπα Βάκχον εὔιον, Μαινάδων ὁμόστολον ruddy Bacchus to whom Bacchants cry

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20. Synonyms for Bacchants include revellers, revelers, partygoers, partiers, partyers, celebrators, roisterers, merrymakers, celebrants and carousers

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22. The Bacchants had a common fund, multiple administrative ranks, several meeting places, and swore oaths of allegiance

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24. Launched in 2019, Bacchants Consulting is a boutique consultancy partnership specialising in the English Wine sector and UK On-Trade

25. At only four festivals was Euripides awarded the first prize—the fourth posthumously, for the tetralogy that included Bacchants and Iphigenia at Aulis

26. Examples of bacchant in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web The lesbians became the Bacchants of Euripides, killing him in a festive manner

27. While Pentheus is being costumed offstage by Dionysus for the hero’s impending ordeal in the mountains, where he will be torn limb from limb by the Bacchants of myth, there is a choral song being sung and danced by the Bacchants of the ritual that is the drama of the Bacchae

28. Indeed, the actors and audience find out about the practices of the Bacchants principally through messengers, who often arrive out of breath and frightened

29. The tale: the Bacchants, including the royal women of Thebes, awoke from a chaste sleep; miracles, such as water springing from a rock and wild beasts suckling at women, illustrated their oneness with nature; the shepherd and his friends hid in the woods to ambush the women and catch them for Pentheus, but were driven off by the Bacchants, who

30. (32) The Bacchants succeed to the role played by Hermes, Ino, and Rhea in Dionysus's infancy, by becoming nurses who fight for, protect, and literally dance attendance upon him.

31. After weeks of practicing, seeing all the amazing Bacchants setting up to sing made me even more excited to hear the final product and to be with everyone in person

32. He arrives in town disguised as the stranger, accompanied by a band of Bacchants, to punish the family for their treatment of his mother and their refusal to offer him sacrifices

33. Yet, these women were Bacchants, that is, Dionysian orgiasts, and in other versions Dionysus himself directs them to kill Orpheus because the bard, in his devotion to Apollo the sun-god, has prevented the wine-god's acceptance in Thrace.

34. This animal imagery is also applied to the female disciples of Dionysus (the bacchants) in the Bacchae, where these women are dressed “with boughs of oak and fir, and decorate cloaks of dappled fawnskin with fringes of white wool” (lines 94-96).

35. Following the priests and priestesses who trailed behind an enormous statue of Dionysos were "Macedonian Bacchants, the so-called 'Mimallones,' and 'Bassarae' and 'Lydian women,' with hair streaming down and crowned with wreaths, some of snakes, others of smilax and vine-leaves and ivy; in their hands some held daggers, others snakes."

36. The Bacchants’ rituals were described as wild, rapturous group encounters, drunken ecstatic cavorting, driving them wild so they do not recognize their own children – these all apply to the drug culture of the present day, and in a sprawling and progressive metropolis such as New York City the spread of such a culture is indeed menacing.