Satyr
['sætə] or ['sætɚ]
Definition
(noun.) one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns.
(noun.) man with strong sexual desires.
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Definition
(n.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
(n.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.
(n.) The orang-outang.
Editor: Pratt
Definition
n. a silvan deity represented as part man and part goat and extremely wanton: a very lecherous person: a species of butterfly.—ns. Sat′yral (her.) a monster with a human head and the limbs of different animals; Satyrī′asis morbid lasciviousness in men corresponding to nymphomania in women—also Satyromā′nia.—adjs. Satyr′ic -al pertaining to satyrs.—ns. Satyrī′n?/span> the argus butterflies; Satyr′ium a genus of small flowered orchids; Sat′yrus the genus of orangs—simia.
Checker: Patty
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus xvii 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun a later and decenter creation of the Romans who was less like a man and more like a goat.
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Examples
- It was Fred Lamb who dined with me, read to me, talked of love to me, and looked all passion, just like the satyr of my vision. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The popular poets got to work in this fashion: Thou king of satyrs . H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Newman