satyr
nounUK /ˈsætə/ · US /ˈseɪtɚ/
Etymology From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).
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Human sciences, Mysticism, Mythology, Philosophy, Sciences Greek A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long. male variation of nymphs1637, John Milton, Lycidas:
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Human sciences, Mysticism, Mythology, Philosophy, Sciences Roman Synonym of faun.
3
Broadly A lecherous man.
4
Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
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Obsolete The orangutan.
- Derived terms
- satyresque, satyress, satyrical, satyrisation, satyrization, satyrism, satyrizing, satyrlike, satyr play
- Related terms
- satyriasis, satyrisk