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Definition of Satyr

1. Noun. Man with strong sexual desires.

2. Noun. One of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns.

Definition of Satyr

1. n. A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.

Definition of Satyr

1. Noun. (Greek mythology): A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection. ¹

2. Noun. (Roman mythology): A faun. ¹

3. Noun. A lecherous man ¹

4. Noun. Any of various butterflies of the family ''Satyridae'', having brown wings marked with eyelike spots. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Satyr

1. a woodland deity of Greek mythology [n -S] : SATYRIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Satyr

1. 1. A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterised by riotous merriment and lasciviousness. "Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, From the glad sound would not be absent long." (Milton) 2. Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colours are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Synonym: meadow browns. 3. The orangoutang. Origin: L. Satyrus, Gr., cf. F. Satyre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Satyr

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Literary usage of Satyr

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"PAN, ECHO, AND THE satyr TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS.i PAN ... As Pan loved Echo, Echo loved the satyr, The satyr Lyda—and so5 love consumed them. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"A traveller, benumbed with cold, having entered the house satyr and Peasant, Jacob Jordaens, Old Pinakothek, Munich. of a satyr as the latter was about to ..."

3. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"Such "goat" or "satyr" choruses had existed in the Peloponnesus before Arion's ... 67) imply that, in his belief at least, the satyr chorus had previously ..."

4. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"Such "goat" or "satyr" choruses had existed in the Peloponnesus before Arion's ... 67) imply that, in his belief at least, the satyr chorus had previously ..."

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