Bacchante

Definition: Bacchante

Bacchante

Noun

1. (Greek and Roman mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

Date "bacchante" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Bacchante

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Bacchante (2 syl.) A female winebibber; so called from the "bacchantes," or female priestesses of Bacchus. They wore fillets of ivy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Bacchante

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Drunkenness	Drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal, Bacchante; devotee to Bacchus; bum, guzzler, tavern haunter.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bacchante

English words defined with "bacchante": Bacchantes. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Bacchante" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (bacchante).

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Usage Frequency: Bacchante

"Bacchante" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bacchante" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bacchante

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
bacchante	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bacchante

Language		Translations for "bacchante"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Farsi		زن عیاش ومیگسار. (various references)

French		bacchante. (various references)

Greek		βάκχισ (bacchant), βακχεύων (bacchant), μαινάδα (bacchant, maenad). (various references)

Hungarian		bacchus papnõje. (various references)

Italian		baccante (bacchanal, bacchant, maenad). (various references)

Pig Latin		acchantebay.(various references)

Romanian		bacantã. (various references)

Russian		вакханка (bacchant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bahantkinja. (various references)

Spanish		bacante (bacchanal). (various references)

Swedish		backant (bacchant). (various references)

Turkish		baküs rahibesi, sarhoş kadın, ayyaş kadın. (various references)

Ukranian		вакханка. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bacchante

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bacchante": bacchantes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bacchante" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achintee, Akhnaten, baccata, bacciata. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bacchante

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-e-h-n-t"
	-1 letter: bacchant.
	-2 letters: baccate.
	-3 letters: accent, baccae, cachet, cancha, catena, chaeta, chance.
	-4 letters: abate, aceta, antae, bacca, batch, bathe, beach, bench, cache, caeca, catch, chant, cheat, enact, hance, natch, neath, tache, teach, tench, thane, theca.
	-5 letters: abet, ache, acne, acta, anta, ante, bach, baht, bane, bate, bath, bean, beat, bent, beta, beth, caca, cane, cant, cate, ceca, cent, chat, each, eath, etch, etna, haen, haet, hant, hate, heat, hent, nabe, neat, tace, tach, thae, than, then.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-c-e-h-n-t"
	+1 letter: bacchantes.
	+2 letters: uncatchable.
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