Definition of corybant Corybant
Cor•y•bant
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What does corybant mean?
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- corybant (n.)
One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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corybant
kor′i-bant, n. a priest of Cybele, whose rites were accompanied with noisy music and wild dances:—Eng. pl. Cor′ybants; L. pl. Corybantes (kor-i-ban′tēz).—adj. Coryban′tic, wildly excited.—n. Cor′ybantism. [Gr. korybas, korybantos.]
