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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology A woodland creature depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
- noun A licentious man; a lecher.
- noun A man who is affected by satyriasis.
- noun Any of various satyrid butterflies having brownish wings marked with eyespots.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In classical mythology, a sylvan deity, representing the luxuriant forces of Nature, and closely connected with the worship of Bacchus.
- noun A very lecherous or lascivious person; one affected with satyriasis.
- noun In zoology: The orang-utan, Simia satyrus: see
Satyrus . - noun A pheasant of the genus Ceriornis; a tragopan.
- noun An argus-butterfly: same as
meadow-brown ; any member of the Satyrinæ. - noun In heraldry, same as
manticore . - noun An obsolete erroneous spelling of
satire .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Class. Myth.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family
Nymphalidæ . Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called alsomeadow browns . - noun (Zoöl.) The orang-outang.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Greek mythology A male companion of
Pan orDionysus with the tail of ahorse and a perpetualerection . - noun Roman mythology A
faun . - noun A
lecherous man . - noun Any of various
butterflies of thefamily Satyridae, havingbrown wings marked witheyelike spots ; ameadow brown . - noun obsolete The
orangutan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun man with strong sexual desires
- noun one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His eyes, under massively arched brows, were wide apart and black with the blackness that is barbaric, while before them was perpetually falling down a great black mop of hair through which he gazed like a roguish satyr from a thicket.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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Yes, Drew, our modern idea of the satyr is the Greek image conflated with the Italic deity of Faunus, who had the horns and goat legs.
Pan and Satyrs James Gurney 2009
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The man was quite right, and the satyr was a fool.
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He had smiled grimly on being described as a satyr!
From the Housetops George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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I therefore, as I could not be accused of an outrage to modesty, permitted myself to maintain what might be invidiously termed a satyr-like watch from behind a forward flinging willow, whose business in life was to look at its image in a brown depth, branches, trunk, and roots.
The Gentleman of Fifty George Meredith 1868
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I therefore, as I could not be accused of an outrage to modesty, permitted myself to maintain what might be invidiously termed a satyr-like watch from behind a forward flinging willow, whose business in life was to look at its image in a brown depth, branches, trunk, and roots.
Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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I therefore, as I could not be accused of an outrage to modesty, permitted myself to maintain what might be invidiously termed a satyr-like watch from behind a forward flinging willow, whose business in life was to look at its image in a brown depth, branches, trunk, and roots.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The cook wanted to chase him out with a meat cleaver, but steward held him back saying that the satyr was a guest of the king.
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The cook wanted to chase him out with a meat cleaver, but steward held him back saying that the satyr was a guest of the king.
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The satyr is the god of the party, of letting go and letting flow.
Related Words
synonyms (48)
Words with the same meaning
- Cailleac
- Faunus
- Pan
- Priapus
- Vidar
- Vitharr
- aphrodisiomaniac
- bugger
- coprophiliac
- corn spirit
- dirty old man
- eroticomaniac
- erotomaniac
- exhibitionist
- faun
- fertility god
- fetishist
- field spirit
- forest god
- goat
- gynecomaniac
- lecher
- libertine
- masochist
- narcissist
- necrophiliac
- nymphomaniac
- old goat
- panisc
- panisca
- paniscus
- paraphiliac
- pederast
- pedophiliac
- rapist
- sadist
- scotophiliac
- silenus
- sodomist
- sodomite
- sylvan deity
- the goat god
- transvestite
- vegetation spirit
- voyeur
- whoremaster
- whoremonger
- zoophiliac
yarb commented on the word satyr
...seeing about you us becoming slowly
satyrs and tenuous shadows gathering
for your committed final Bacchanal.
- Peter Reading, Mnemonic, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008