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satyr

noun · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsætə/
  • General-American: /ˈseɪtɚ/
  • General-American: /ˈsætɚ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: saeter (GA pronunciation)
  • homophone: sadder (flapping)
  • rhymes with -ætə(ɹ)
  • rhymes with -eɪtə(ɹ)

1

noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Greek

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Synonym of faun.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Roman

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: faun

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A lecherous man.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The orangutan.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: forest god

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Greek deity

Narrower terms: Silenus

7

noun

Meaning 7

man with strong sexual desires

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: lecher, lech, letch

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate

History

Etymology

From French satyre, from Latin satyrus, from Ancient Greek σάτυρος (sáturos).

Across languages

Translations

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: sater — Greek mythology
  • Arabic: ساتير (satir) — Greek mythology
  • Armenian: սատիր (satir) — Greek mythology
  • Asturian: sátiru — Greek mythology
  • Bulgarian: сатир (satir) — Greek mythology
  • Catalan: sàtir — Greek mythology
  • Czech: satyr — Greek mythology
  • Danish: satyr — Greek mythology
  • Esperanto: satiruso — Greek mythology
  • Finnish: satyyri — Greek mythology
  • French: satyre — Greek mythology
  • Galician: sátiro — Greek mythology
  • German: Satyr — Greek mythology
  • Greek: σάτυρος (sátyros) — Greek mythology
  • Ancient Greek: σάτυρος (sáturos) — Greek mythology
  • Hindi: सेटिर (seṭir) — Greek mythology
  • Italian: satiro — Greek mythology
  • Japanese: サテュロス (satyurosu) — Greek mythology
  • Kashubian: satir — Greek mythology
  • Korean: 사튀로스 (satwiroseu) — Greek mythology
  • Latin: satyrus — Greek mythology
  • Old English: satyrus — Greek mythology
  • Polish: satyr — Greek mythology
  • Portuguese: sátiro — Greek mythology
  • Romanian: satir — Greek mythology
  • Russian: сати́р (satír) — Greek mythology
  • Spanish: sátiro — Greek mythology
  • Swedish: satyr — Greek mythology
  • Tagalog: satiro — Greek mythology
  • Thai: เซเทอร์ (see-tə̂ə) — Greek mythology
  • Thai: เมษปิศาจ (mêet-sà-bpì-sàat) — Greek mythology
  • Turkish: satir — Greek mythology
  • Urdu: ساطیر (sāter) — Greek mythology
  • Bulgarian: развратник (razvratnik) — Lecher
  • French: satyre — Lecher
  • Hindi: हवसनाक (havasnāk) — Lecher
  • Hindi: हवसदार (havasdār) — Lecher
  • Hindi: हवस-परस्त (havas-parast) — Lecher
  • Polish: satyr — Lecher
  • Spanish: sátiro — Lecher
  • Swedish: satyr — Lecher
  • Urdu: ہوسناک (hawas nak) — Lecher
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