maenads

Meaning of maenads

plural noun

(in ancient Greece) a female follower of Bacchus, traditionally associated with divine possession and frenzied rites.

late 16th century: via Latin from Greek Mainas, Mainad-, from mainesthai ‘to rave’.

Information about maenads

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of maenads is: maenad.
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Hyphenation of maenads

mae-nads

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • maenads is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of maenads

Adamsen, anadems, anadesm

Words that rhyme with maenads

menads, gonads, monads, pseudomonads, trichomonads

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