Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology A woodland creature depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
- noun A licentious man; a lecher.
- noun A man who is affected by satyriasis.
- noun Any of various satyrid butterflies having brownish wings marked with eyespots.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In classical mythology, a sylvan deity, representing the luxuriant forces of Nature, and closely connected with the worship of Bacchus.
- noun A very lecherous or lascivious person; one affected with satyriasis.
- noun In zoology: The orang-utan, Simia satyrus: see
Satyrus . - noun A pheasant of the genus Ceriornis; a tragopan.
- noun An argus-butterfly: same as
meadow-brown ; any member of the Satyrinæ. - noun In heraldry, same as
manticore . - noun An obsolete erroneous spelling of
satire .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Class. Myth.) A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family
Nymphalidæ . Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called alsomeadow browns . - noun (Zoöl.) The orang-outang.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Greek mythology A male companion of
Pan orDionysus with the tail of ahorse and a perpetualerection . - noun Roman mythology A
faun . - noun A
lecherous man . - noun Any of various
butterflies of thefamily Satyridae, havingbrown wings marked witheyelike spots ; ameadow brown . - noun obsolete The
orangutan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun man with strong sexual desires
- noun one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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His eyes, under massively arched brows, were wide apart and black with the blackness that is barbaric, while before them was perpetually falling down a great black mop of hair through which he gazed like a roguish satyr from a thicket.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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Yes, Drew, our modern idea of the satyr is the Greek image conflated with the Italic deity of Faunus, who had the horns and goat legs.
Pan and Satyrs James Gurney 2009
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The man was quite right, and the satyr was a fool.
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He had smiled grimly on being described as a satyr!
From the Housetops George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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I therefore, as I could not be accused of an outrage to modesty, permitted myself to maintain what might be invidiously termed a satyr-like watch from behind a forward flinging willow, whose business in life was to look at its image in a brown depth, branches, trunk, and roots.
The Gentleman of Fifty George Meredith 1868
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I therefore, as I could not be accused of an outrage to modesty, permitted myself to maintain what might be invidiously termed a satyr-like watch from behind a forward flinging willow, whose business in life was to look at its image in a brown depth, branches, trunk, and roots.
Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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I therefore, as I could not be accused of an outrage to modesty, permitted myself to maintain what might be invidiously termed a satyr-like watch from behind a forward flinging willow, whose business in life was to look at its image in a brown depth, branches, trunk, and roots.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The cook wanted to chase him out with a meat cleaver, but steward held him back saying that the satyr was a guest of the king.
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The cook wanted to chase him out with a meat cleaver, but steward held him back saying that the satyr was a guest of the king.
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The satyr is the god of the party, of letting go and letting flow.
yarb commented on the word satyr
...seeing about you us becoming slowly
satyrs and tenuous shadows gathering
for your committed final Bacchanal.
- Peter Reading, Mnemonic, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974
June 22, 2008