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.

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