maenad

noun

A woman member of the orgiastic cult of Dionysus.

noun

A frenzied woman.

noun

In 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.

noun

Hence Any woman under the influence of unnatural excitement or frenzy.

noun

A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

noun

A frantic or frenzied woman.

noun

A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling.

noun

An excessively wild or emotional woman.

noun

an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman

noun

(Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus