Meaning of Satyr | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   Greek
2. Synonym of faun.
   Roman
3. A lecherous man.
   broadly
4. Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
5. The orangutan.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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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