Sylvan vs Satyr - What's the difference?
sylvan | satyr |
pertaining to the forest, or woodlands
* De Quincey
residing in a forest or wood
wooded, or covered in forest
One who resides in the woods.
A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun.
* Alexander Pope
(Greek mythology) A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.
* Milton
(Roman mythology) A faun.
A lecherous man.
Any of various butterflies of the family Satyridae , having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
(obsolete) The orangutan.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between sylvan and satyr
is that sylvan is one who resides in the woods while satyr is a male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.As an adjective sylvan
is pertaining to the forest, or woodlands.sylvan
English
Alternative forms
* silvanAdjective
(en adjective)- The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region is usually exact as well as tenacious.
Synonyms
* (of or like a forest) forestySee also
* arboreal * nemorousNoun
(en noun)- Her private orchards, walled on every side, / To lawless sylvans all access denied.
satyr
English
Alternative forms
* satyre (rare or archaic) * satyrus (rare)Noun
(wikipedia satyr) (en noun)- Rough Satyrs danced; and Fauns, with cloven heel, / From the glad sound would not be absent long.