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What does Dionysus mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Dionysus? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The god of wine, specifically its intoxication and social influence, but also the patron of agriculture and the theater. Also related to the mystery of religion, as in "spiritual intoxication".
Name
  1. A male given name of German origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A lover of wine. From Dionysus, the mythological God of wine and drama. Also see Dennison and Tennyson.
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His killers were women devotees of the old, displaced cult of Dionysus, who tore him apart.
The creature sails with Dionysus and leaps against the Tyrrhenians without waiting for his bidding.
His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus.
It was also drunken frenzy which suggested to Nietzsche the ecstatic abandonment and orgiastic revelry of the ancient cult of Dionysus.
In Greek legend the evergreen pine tree is sacred to the goat god Dionysus, and the pine cone, a phallic symbol of eternity, immortality and rebirth.
Of the greatest gift of Dionysus I hardly like to speak, lest I should be misunderstood.

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