satyr

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/ˈsætə/

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/ˈsætə/ · /ˈseɪtɚ/ · /ˈsætɚ/

Definition of satyr

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noun

(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 nymphs”

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noun

(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 nymphs”
(Roman)Synonym of faun.
(broadly)A lecherous man.
Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
(obsolete)The orangutan.

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From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

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