ménade
French, noun\me.nad\
ménade is spelled M-É-N-A-D-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 21 million words in written French, the 147,615th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ménade is a French feminine noun meaning “maenad (follower of Dionysus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bacchante, femme qui célébrait les fêtes de Bacchus et se livrait à un délire qui allait jusqu’à la fureur”.
What does ménade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemaenad (follower of Dionysus)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bacchante, femme qui célébrait les fêtes de Bacchus et se livrait à un délire qui allait jusqu’à la fureur. 2. Femme méchante ou emportée.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ménade
- ménades plural
- mænade alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ménade?
- \me.nad\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ménade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ménade in French?
ménade appears about once in every 21 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).