Word Meanings - BACCHANTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A priestess of Bacchus. 2. A female bacchanal.

FEMALE
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
PRIESTESS
A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter.
BACCHANALIA
A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus. 2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler. (more info) Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr.
FEMALE FERN
a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
BACCHANAL
1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival. 2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
BACCHANALIAN
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.
BACCHANALIANISM
The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.
BACCHUS
The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
FEMALE RHYMES
double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree