satyr UK /ˈsætə/US /ˈseɪtɚ/ noun5 •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.Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long. male variation of nymphs — 1637 •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. •(no longer used) The orangutan. formssatyrs