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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele whose rites were celebrated with music and ecstatic dances.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the mysterious spirits or secondary Asian divinities, akin to the Dactyli and the Telchines; or, without clear distinction from the former, a priest of the goddess Cybele, who conducted her mysteries with wild music and dancing; hence, a frantic devotee; a wild, reckless reveler. See Cybele. Sometimes written korybant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Korybant.

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