Definitions for satyrs

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satyrs sa·tyr

Spelling: [sey-ter, sat-er]

IPA: /ˈseɪ tər, ˈsæt ər/

Satyrs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in satyrs (arssty).

Definitions for satyrs

noun

1. Classical Mythology. one of a class of woodland deities, attendant on Bacchus, represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness.
2. a lascivious man; lecher.
3. a man who has satyriasis.
4. Also, satyrid [sey-ter-id, sat-er-, suh-tahy-rid] /ˈseɪ tər ɪd, ˈsæt ər-, səˈtaɪ rɪd/ (Show IPA). Also called satyr butterfly. any of several butterflies of the family Satyridae, having gray or brown wings marked with eyespots.

Origin of satyrs

1325-75; Middle English Latin satyrus Greek sátyros

Examples for satyrs

When the satyr asked the reason for this, he told him that he did it to warm his hands because they were so cold.

When the satyr again inquired the reason, he said that he did it to cool the meat, which was too hot.

You will not deny this, Socrates, that your face is like that of a satyr.

I found Penelope in the yew-walk, leaning against the statue of a satyr.

You yourself will not deny, Socrates, that your face is like that of a satyr.

As for that precocious damsel, she would run no least risk of destruction by the satyr.

He is the most wonderful of human beings, and absolutely unlike anyone but a satyr.

And this is what I and many others have suffered from the flute-playing of this satyr.

The savage and the satyr might have beheld, and been awed into reverence.

He painted the figure of a satyr, and beside it, as a trifle, he inserted a partridge.