Associations to the word «Satyr»

Wiktionary

SATYR, noun. (Greek mythology) A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.
SATYR, noun. (Roman mythology) A faun.
SATYR, noun. A lecherous man.
SATYR, noun. Any of various butterflies of the family Satyridae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
SATYR, noun. (obsolete) The orangutan.

Dictionary definition

SATYR, noun. Man with strong sexual desires.
SATYR, noun. One of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats