Satyrs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SATYRS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• SATYR, a Greek god of the woodlands, with a tail and long ears, represented by the Romans as part goat
• a man who has strong sexual desires
• a satyrid butterfly with chiefly dark brown wings.
• one of a class of lustful, drunken woodland gods. In Greek art they were represented as a man with a horse's ears and tail, but in Roman representations as a man with a goat's ears, tail, legs, and horns.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a woodland deity of Greek mythology

Words related to SATYRS

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How to use SATYRS in a sentence

• And men, whose upturned faces were like greedy satyrs, were calling upon her to open her ruby lips and show her pearls.
• He chose a path that wound amid the shrubbery, where marble satyrs grinned in colored lantern light.
• Many of them were not so austere in the villages when they let their passions loose and behaved like drunken demons or satyrs with flaming torches.
• Upon the very tall bases of the columns were carved, together with foliage, fantastic heads of demons, or satyrs of such expressive ugliness that they held me fascinated.
• Baccio Bandinelli and Bartolommeo Ammanati filled the squares of the Italian cities with statues of Hercules and Satyrs, Neptune and River-gods.
• About the Satyrs I have conversed with many, wishing to know all about them.
• What virtue was there in this new knowledge if its prophets were apes and satyrs! Not here grew the Wood of Life.
• Satyrs are partly of human likeness and partly of bestial shape.
• When he sees his mistress she is walking in the midst of pastoral scenes where satyrs lurk behind every bush and the song of the shepherd is heard in the land.
• If we mention it with favour we may be regarded, however unjustly, as the advocate of savages, satyrs, and pure sensuality.
• These young folk, tearing about like disheveled satyrs and nymphs, would be at their jobs in the morning.
• Pan and the Satyrs, near Chemmis, first discovered his death, announced it by their cries, and everywhere created sorrow and alarm.
• They were called tityri and satyrs, and were in all eighty-five thousand one hundred and thirty-three.
• Its chief interest for us, however, lies in the episode of the hero employing a gang of satyrs to carry off his beloved during a solemn dance in honour of Venus.
• Again a satyr enters, and carries off Arismena, whom Castarina on waking follows to the dwelling of the satyrs, where she finds her friend being courted by her captor.
• One feature of importance is the comic character Graculus, who is well fooled by the pretended satyrs, and has an amusing though coarse part in prose.
• In it the strains of the polished pastoral are varied by the humours of the clown Hobbinall, the whole ending with a speech by Pan and a dance of satyrs.
• Such an insurrection of satyrs, and such a Pan, in the middle of the nineteenth century, within earshot of the bells of Christchurch! But this by the bye.
• Like one of those drunken satyrs in the pictures of Rubens.
• According to AEschylus, in the orgies in honour of the great goddess the women were smitten by this evil frenzy when they pursued the satyrs under the stars.
• And hard by the raving satyrs went through the sacred rites of the mother Goddess.
• The children could not be compared to anything so joyous as satyrs, although they appeared but half-human.

Similar words containing SATYR without suffix s

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