satyr
Meanings
Plural: satyrs
Noun
- man with strong sexual desires
- one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns
- A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- Synonym of faun.
- A lecherous man.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- The orangutan.
Origin / Etymology
From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).
Scrabble Score: 8
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Words With Friends Score: 7
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