Definitions for maenad

maenad mae·nad

Spelling: [mee-nad]
IPA: /ˈmi næd/

Maenad is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in maenad (aademn).

Definitions for maenad

noun

  1. bacchante.
  2. a frenzied or raging woman.

Origin of maenad

1570-80; Latin Maenad- (stem of Maenas) Greek Mainás a bacchante, special use of mainás madwoman

Examples for maenad

But that statue will put it all right,' and she pointed behind her to the maenad.

Her eye gleamed: she ran to the cupboard and took out the maenad's dress.

maenad: a frenzied Nymph, attendant on Dionysus in the Greek mythology.

She felt the gravity of his tone but, like a fierce maenad, she snatched at the torch, not caring how it revealed her.

She ceased to be a woman, complex, kind and petulant, considerate and thoughtless; she was a maenad.

She flings her arms and tresses of Fire to the stars, a maenad in the planetary dance.

I was in a mind to wring the maenad's neck three minutes ago.

The tigress-mother swelled in her heart, and she looked like a maenad indeed.

He followed: but the intense passion of the old hag hurled her onward with the strength and speed of a young maenad.

These were the eyes of a girl who had raved like a maenad the night through.

Word Value for maenad
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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