maenad
nounA woman member of the orgiastic cult of Dionysus.
nounA frenzied woman.
nounIn Greek myth, a female member of the attendant train of Bacchus; hence, a priestess of Bacchus; one of the women who celebrated the festivals of Bacchus with mad songs and dancing and boisterous courses in gay companies amid the crags of Parnassus and Cithæron, particularly on the occasion of the great triennial Bacchic festival.
nounHence Any woman under the influence of unnatural excitement or frenzy.
nounA Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.
nounA frantic or frenzied woman.
nounA female follower of
An excessively
an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman
noun(Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus