Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun maenad

2 senses of maenad

Sense 1
maenad -- (an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman)
       => woman, adult female -- (an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted")

Sense 2
maenad -- ((Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus)
       => woman, adult female -- (an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted")