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satyr - What does it mean?

Definition of 'satyr'

English

Alternative forms

* satyre (rare or archaic) * satyrus (rare)

Noun

(wikipedia) (en-noun)
  • (Greek mythology) A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.
  • * Milton
  • Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.
  • (Roman mythology) A faun.
  • A lecherous man.
  • Any of various butterflies of the family Satyridae , having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
  • (obsolete) The orangutan.
  • (Webster 1913)

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