bacchant
noun
bac·chant bə-ˈkant 
-ˈkänt;
ˈba-kənt,
ˈbä- plural bacchants or bacchantes bə-ˈkants
-ˈkänts,
-ˈkan-tēz,
-ˈkän-tēz
: bacchanal
bacchant adjective
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The lesbians became the bacchants of Euripides, killing him in a festive manner. 
Andrew Martin, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2020
Andrew Martin, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2020 Word History
Etymology
Latin bacchant-, bacchans, from present participle of bacchari to take part in the orgies of Bacchus
First Known Use
1699, in the meaning defined above
- diaphragm shutter
- diaphragm valve
- diaphragmatic
- diaphragmatic respiration
- diaphragmatically
- diaphragmed
- diaphragming
- diaphragms
- gloriously
- gloriousness
- gloriousnesses
- gloriousser
- glorioussest
- glory
- glory (in)
- glory be
- glory days
- glory days/years
- glory hole
- glory in
- glory pea
- glory years
- glory-bower
- glory-bush
- glory-flower